A Nepali immigrant tries to survive, and support a family back home, on a cab driver’s wages in Qatar.

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.

A nonconformist pastor sent a colony of Welsh people to Argentina to try to preserve the language in 1865. 150 years later, the traces are still there.

What it’s like to have your novel filmed by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

On being South Africa’s “public protector,” charged with watching over the people who once liberated it.

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.

The last trip of a dedicated wanderer.

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.

On being held hostage by Somali pirates.

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”

Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.

The Houthi coup in Yemen.

The culturally-bound mechanics of comedy.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

The humanitarian crisis the rest of the world has already forgotten about.

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”