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Stivinson Mena lost his left leg, one finger and suffered genital injuries when he stepped on a land mine in Colombia
Conflict
Genital amputation, the silent wound of Colombia’s decades-old conflict
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrive for a statement prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, November 18, 2016.
Global Politics
Brexit looms for more than 100,000 Brits living in Germany
The secret library in Syria
Books
The search for Syria’s secret library
Conflict
Going hungry in Venezuela
The so-called Islamic State defacing the defacing the Lamassu in Nineveh in 2015
Culture
Welcome to the Museum of Lost Objects: Remembering the Winged Bull of Nineveh
Saranjit Kandola (right) runs a matchmaking service for Sikhs, which also offers background checks.
Culture
Britain’s arranged marriage detectives use ‘honeytraps’ to check their targets
African Renaissance Monument - From Above
Economics
North Korea’s biggest export? Giant statues. To African dictators.
The gold plated pistol soon after it was seized by anti-Gadaffi rebels near Sirte
Conflict
My search for Gaddafi’s golden gun
Up to 40% of the population is thought to have type 2 diabetes and life expectancy is falling.
Health
In world’s most obese nation, are mutton flaps to blame?
The Catturandi
Justice
The secret lives of the Mafia hunters
Senior Superintendent Ijaz prepares for a night raid on a suspected Taliban kidnapping cell. The Pakistani Taliban have 'top-sliced' organised crime gangs across the city.
Conflict
With Pakistan’s ‘Taliban Hunters’: ‘I’m in the mood to take the suspects alive’
The declining role of women in the media in North America
Media
Women ‘still much less visible in media’
Robert Menard, a journalist from the group Reporters without Borders, speaks at a news conference in Athens May 29, 2008.
Global Politics
This mayor outlawed spitting. And tells Syrian refugees to go home.
A silhouetted bride and groom
Belief
Saved or exploited? Dutch alarm rises over child brides from Syria.
A man walks along the coast of Old Providence.
Conflict
On this Caribbean island, the men are disappearing
Many female medical students face a dilemma: their careers or their families.
Medicine
Women rule Pakistan’s med schools, but few practice. Men want M.D. ‘trophy wives.’
Tieta was rescued from an animal fair in Rio de Janeiro.
Technology
This mutilated toucan now has a new 3-D-printed beak
John Belushi portrait for the film "Animal House" in 1978.
Music
Did Bosnia rip off its national anthem from ‘Animal House?’
Arts
He calls it ‘plastic fantastic’ — beautiful artwork made out of discarded plastic (Video)
on border
Conflict
Refugees cross as Hungary builds ‘new Iron Curtain’ to stop them
A view of the construction site of the Panama Canal Expansion project in January 2014.
Development
New safety concerns rising with expanding Panama Canal
Global Politics
Iran wants to work with rivals for peace, says its vice president
Aboubacar Doumbia, a mailman in Bamako, Mali.
Culture
He may be Mali’s most dedicated postman
Chief of Mission at the US Interests Section in Havana Jeffrey DeLaurentis (L) shakes hands with Cuba's interim Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina in Havana July 1, 2015.
Global Politics
There’s no Cuban ambassador just yet, but there is ‘our man in Havana’
Ani Zonneveld
Belief
She’s an imam in LA and doesn’t have patience for a strict interpretation of Islam
Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber.
Belief
Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America’s outsiders
Conflict & Justice
US forces go after leaders of al-Qaeda and al-Shabab in Africa