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Years after leaving his home in northern India, journalist Siddhartha Deb returned to explore the true impact of globalization on his homeland. In The Beautiful and the Damned, Deb exposes the darker side of Indian prosperity.

Israel says it wants hospitals in northern Gaza to empty out so it can go after Hamas militants operating there. Palestinians say health care is collapsing in the territory.

As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into controlling robotic swarms.

The two candidates in Argentina's Presidential runoff are almost neck and neck in an election where the economic crisis dominates the race.

The World Health Organization has asked China to provide data on a spike in pneumonia and bacterial lung infections in children there.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has died. He was born before Saudi Arabia was even a country. David Greene talks to journalist and author Thomas Lippman about the king's death.

An Italian tribunal convicted 207 people on charges related to their membership in an Italian crime syndicate that is one of the world's most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

In a reversal that brought him back in a matter of days, the OpenAI co-founder joins a club of CEOs who return after leaving the company they founded.

For years, scarce copies of Laura London's 1984 romance The Windflower were treasured by readers. Reviewer Sarah Wendell hails its reissue and explains the concept of "Good Book Noise."

Kate Mosse's new gothic thriller uses the concept of taxidermy as a clever skeleton on which to hang its scares. It's a dark and tangled tale that's definitely not for the squeamish.