The voice asked Lin Xia to answer the question that had been building for thirty-two years. What does it feel like to be the human who stayed? She opened her mouth and found that she had been waiting her whole life to say it out loud.

Trump is coming to China. After eight years, the man in the red tie is making the trip back to Beijing — and this time the stakes are different.

The MV Hondius — an Antarctic cruise ship carrying a rare, deadly hantavirus — finally docked in Tenerife on May 10th after being denied port after port. By then, three passengers were dead, dozens had already scattered across the globe, and the world's health agencies were left scrambling.

Moscow marked the 81st anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany with a full military parade on Red Square, as Russia and Ukraine quietly agreed to extend their ceasefire through May 11 — a fragile pause nobody's willing to call peace.

Under U.S. mediation, Russia and Ukraine agreed to extend their fragile Victory Day ceasefire through May 11 and swap 1,000 prisoners each — the largest exchange since the war began.