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Muslim worshipers walk along the Grand Mosque complex under the water-mist fans installed in the holy city of Mecca on Sunday.

WORLD / Society

May 25, 2026

With ice cream and giant fans, hajj pilgrims battle searing heat

By Haitham EL-TABEI

Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Meteorology has predicted daytime temperatures this week would hover between 42 and 47 degrees Celsius in Mecca during the Hajj.

A cook from Thailand prepares reindeer legs in the kitchen of the Nuka cafe in Ilulissat, Greenland.

WORLD / Society / FOCUS

May 23, 2026

The Asian workers keeping Greenland in business

According to Greenland’s employers’ association, five to 6% of workers on the island are Asian, drawn by the tourism sector.

Ndey Ndiaye (center) with her grandsons Fallou (left) and Bara (right) at their home in Mbour, Senegal. Ndey is raising her two grandsons after losing her daughter when the boat she was traveling in capsized trying to reach Europe.

WORLD / Society

May 15, 2026

Senegal’s children mourn in silence when migrant parents disappear

By Lucie Peytermann

The number of such dead, missing and their children is at least in the thousands in Senegal in?recent years, an advocate has said.

A Sudanese rape survivor holds her child conceived following the ordeal she suffered in the Sudanese capital during the civil war, at an apartment in Khartoum on April 25.

WORLD / Society

May 13, 2026

‘Not my son’s fault’: The women bearing the children of Sudan’s war rapes

By Bahira AMIN

Rape is being used as a weapon “of war, dominance, destruction and genocide” in Sudan “to destroy the fabric of society and change its makeup,” one U.N. special rapporteur says.

A Shiite Muslim man gestures while visiting the Imam Ali Shrine during the fasting month of Ramadan in Najaf, Iraq, on March 10.

WORLD / Society

May 4, 2026

‘No pilgrims’: Regional war hushes Iraq’s holy cities

By Salam Faraj

The conflict has stemmed the influx of pilgrims from Iran, Lebanon, the Gulf states, India, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

A Sudanese girl, who lost her right arm due to injuries sustained in the civil war, leaves an elementary school run by the Sudanese Coalition for Education in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in the south of Port Sudan, on April 26.

WORLD / Society

May 4, 2026

Sudanese schoolchildren race to make up for years lost to war

By Bahira AMIN

Some 8 million children in Sudan are currently out of school, according to UNICEF.

As Israeli forces move in with controlled detonations and bulldozers, villages along Lebanon’s southern border are being effectively erased, with vibrant communities reduced to lifeless moonscapes.

WORLD / Society

May 1, 2026

The death of a Lebanese village

By Alexander Dziadosz

In Lebanon, villages occupy a profound psychological and cultural space: centers of gravity where families converge from across the country and world.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Social camouflaging can help neurodivergent people navigate social situations, but researchers say the effort often comes with significant emotional and mental strain.

The challenge of being neurodivergent in Japan’s culture of conformity

By Tomoko Otake

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