World

Last week Mount Everest was visible from Kathmandu for the first time in living memory. The picture above, taken from Chobar by Abhushan Gautam

Here's a way to literally hold the world in your hands.

Singapore's Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Strait Times. It's believed to be the second time that a death sentence has been handed down this year over the video service, which has seen a dramatic increase in use since the global coronavirus pandemic began earlier this year.

For Afghan meth makers, the wild ephedra bush has been a game-changer, breathing life into a new, troubling industry.

The inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, which sits in the remote waters of the South Atlantic, are insulated from the coronavirus by an immense moat.

What happens when you're quarantined in a crumbling home in a remote village where you barely speak the language and can't get home to your loved ones? Does life quickly become a nightmare?

The businessman and inventor spent a small fortune developing his idea. Then he scrapped it before the first prototype ever hit the road. Here's why.

So this is what it feels like if "Black Mirror" actually was real life.

Peter Fitzek is part of a movement that denies Germany's existence. He founded his own kingdom and bank — then the government started asking where the money went.

Every day this world is getting a little bit stranger for us.

For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.

Cannes is cancelled this year, but you can still watch the festival's best offerings since its founding, in 1946.

The pandemic isn't just going to change how we live—it's going to dictate where we live, too.

Canadian retiree Bill Norrie arrived in New Zealand after sailing the globe only to discover the world was a changed place.

This visa-free archipelago in Norway is the northernmost year-round settlement in the world, and its capital, Longyearbyen, is home to people from more than 50 countries.

Villagers living up a remote 800-meter (2,624-foot) clifftop in southwest China that became famous for the precarious ladders connecting it to the world have been moved to a new urban housing estate.

While the West has scaled back operations in the Antarctic, Russia and China have pushed ahead.

Cruises are canceled, but plenty of fans are eager to start sailing again.

The ongoing dispute over a 19th century cemetery in a rural valley south of Jakarta has complicated efforts to build a mega-resort set to include a Trump-branded hotel and golf course.

Last seen in 1958, the Snow Cruiser was designed to travel 5000 miles and self-sustain for an entire year.

Sweden made headlines for never shutting down. Here's what's really happening there.

From Argentina's mate to Morocco's green tea, here are seven different ways people around the world drink tea.

Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature - something strange is going on at the British Museum.

Jordan Goudreau, a former US Army Green Beret, led a failed coup attempt against Nicolás Maduro in partnership with Venezuela's opposition.

The coronavirus hasn't reached Nauru. But an outbreak could be disastrous.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

With the cruise industry on life support, fleets have put to sea for an indefinite stay with many of their crewmen trapped on board.

Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is now considered the "safest place in the world," with no confirmed cases at all.

Seven weeks ago, South Korea and the US had the same number of COVID-19 deaths. Today, South Korea has less than 300, and the U.S. has more than 70,000.

Before the coronavirus outbreak, more than half of all air cargo traveled on passenger flights. What happens when nobody is really flying overseas anymore?

The data is pretty clear here: follow the examples of New Zealand and South Korea. Don't follow in the footsteps of the US and Sweden.

There's no lockdown in Sweden - I can go to bars, restaurants and even my office. But that doesn't mean I'm not worried.

Where there's wool there's a way.

For researchers using delicate, one-of-a-kind equipment, the extreme conditions at the bottom of the planet pose special challenges.

Alejandro Cao de Benós can help you explore mining interests — or tell you that Kim Jong Un is in perfectly good health.

As MLB waits to get back on the field, a handful of players from the States are readying to play ball in South Korea, where the path back to live sports offers a potential map for the US to follow.

Soccer fields, football stadiums, tennis courts and martial arts arenas have been filling gaps in health care systems overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic.

They came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus. Joshua Hunt tells the story of the Diamond Princess

With storefronts closed, supply chains in disarray and the global economy in peril, money laundering schemes are hobbled and cash is piling up in Los Angeles, the city's top drug enforcement official said.

The US administration announced it would withdraw funding from the WHO. Here's who contributes to organization, using the two-year budget from 2018-2019, broken up by contributor and contribution type.

MBS was supposed to show off the fruits of modernization in 2020 — instead, he's dealing with the costs of the coronavirus and oil shock.

Tankers, trains, even caves: Oil producers are scrambling to find a place to store their product.

Social distancing measures and widespread testing are among the reasons why some countries have been able to reopen.

Even in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, they are out scavenging, wearing headlamps to scan a mountain of rotting garbage more than 15 stories high.

The rapid rise of global temperature over the last century is almost certainly unprecedented in recent Earth history, but our current rate of sea level rise has stiffer competition.

Luckily, the inert laser-guided bomb fell, unexplosively, onto private property.

Photographer Adrian Guerin rode Mauritania's Train du Desert, one of the world's longest trains, at the hottest time of the year. It nearly broke him.

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Muslims to adapt, observing the holy month more at home than in the mosque, more online than in person and with greater uncertainty about the future.

China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation.

The Venice quarantine history is being unearthed by archaeologists to illuminate how the Italian city created a vast public health response 700 years ago.

In the United States, most milk is sold in the refrigerated section. In other parts of the world, it's sold at room temperature. Why?

Why did it take so long for cruise executives to respond to the Diamond Princess' coronavirus outbreak?

Air Sinai is shrouded in mystery. But why?

As the US hires potentially hundreds of thousands of contact tracers to contain the coronavirus, health departments could be looking to models from such regions as Africa, South Asia and Latin America on how these teams will do their work.

There are rivers so short that you could walk the entire length of it within a few minutes.

Months of drought and high temperatures pushed the country to one of its worst-ever wildfire seasons. On New Year's Eve the terrified citizens of New South Wales saw a glimpse of Australia's new future.

From "feeding" the dead with fried dough in Kyrgyzstan to the sweet solace of Amish funeral pie, we use food to process our own grief and to acknowledge the grief of others.

Hundreds of boaters stuck in the Caribbean have converged on the US Virgin Islands, but there are fears that their safe haven comes at a cost for residents.

Jonathan lost his job in America. Daniel isn't working in Germany. Their governments are handling things completely differently.

Just examine all the predictions we made during 9/11 and the Great Recession.