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Enlarge this image Cairo, Ill. lies at the heart of one of the fastest depopulating regions in America. On some streets, old mansions are abandoned and nature is taking over whole city blocks. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR On the last day of school in the rural town of Cairo, on the southernmost tip of Illinois, the …

South Africa’s Addo elephant park has few females with tusks, a trait that has died off because of hunting but also keeps poachers away.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk described the killing of Pakistan Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan as a “significant development in the fight against terrorism.”

Mr. Reid, a member of the Stop Watch Gang, later found success as a writer, but he was never able to fully leave his past behind.

Stopping dynamite and other illegal fishing has taken on a new urgency in the Philippines, where the practice is taking a toll on populations of fish and the corals where they live.

The UN Security Council has rejected a plan to call for an end to fighting in Hodeidah, Yemen as Saudi-led forces look poised to take the city’s airport.

A soybean plantation in Tocantins, a state in central Brazil, where this monoculture crop is beginning to cover the best lands, following in the footsteps of the neighbouring state of Mato Grosso, the largest producer and exporter of soy and maize in the country, which “imports” the food it consumes from faraway areas. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS By Mario OsavaRIO DE …

Pop star Bebe Rexha describes her arduous, 10-year struggle to make it in music.