Charlotte Mitchell

Par­a­site’s mul­ti­ple Os­car wins made his­to­ry and head­lines, but South Ko­re­an cin­e­ma has been de­light­ing fans for decades.

A year af­ter pres­i­dent de­clared a state of emer­gency, the fight against sex­u­al and gen­der-based vi­o­lence re­mains tough.

Pope Fran­cis has worked to make the Ro­man Catholic Church more rel­e­vant for its 1.2 bil­lion devo­tees around the world.

As elec­tions loom and protests rat­tle the re­gion, here are the sto­ries to look out for this year.

A hos­tile Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion and crises in Venezuela have left the land­mark Oba­ma-era de­tente hang­ing in the bal­ance.

Oleg Sentsov’s case has drawn in­ter­na­tion­al at­ten­tion to plight of Ukrain­ian po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers in Rus­sia.

The Bo­li­vian pres­i­dent has led the coun­try for 13 years but his bid for a fourth term is test­ing his pop­u­lar­i­ty.

The Swedish Acad­e­my names two win­ners af­ter a scan­dal forced the 2018 prize to be post­poned.

As Banned Books Week high­lights cen­sor­ship in lit­er­a­ture, Al Jazeera lists some fa­mous works that court­ed con­tro­ver­sy.

Su­dan’s in­ter­net black­out has gained glob­al at­ten­tion, but it is not unique. Shut­downs are on the rise around the world.