The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

With Keir Starmer away in China, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was pushed on the financial pressures facing Britain’s pubs by the Conservative shadow business secretary. After DPMQs, Home Office ...

Meet the 2026 Grammy nominees for Best African Music Performance: Burna Boy (“Love”), Davido ft. Omah Lay (“With You”), Tyla (“PUSH 2 START”), Ayra Starr ft. Wizkid (“Gimme Dat”), and Eddy Kenzo & ...

Our food, music, thought and emotion are made of layered pasts. The attempt to strip this away in an elusive search for purity misses how cultures survive.

Trump has sent an “armada” to threaten Iran, but the president’s rationale for a possible military strike keeps changing.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a day of dramatic swings on Wall Street that included Microsoft's worst drop in nearly ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Israeli intelligence official Sima Shine about tensions in Iran and what they could mean for the future of the regime.

Mariam Abuhaideri calls herself a Persian Ladki — shorthand for “I am an Indian but my blood is Persian”. When the Pune-based ...