In our search for holiday traditions outside the United States, we came across a Venezuelan staple. It's called hallaca, and it's similar to a Mexican tamale.

It's called "vinarterta." It's an Icelandic layered torte — and a Canadian bakery in Gimli, Manitoba, is famous for it.

It's crooked. It's chopped off at the top. It's too skinny. It's Montreal's Christmas tree.

The Kremlin-funded online Russia Direct outlet says it's "just trying to do well-balanced journalism."

You can't call it "champagne" because it's not made in Champagne, but in France, it's a strong rival of its fancier cousin.

Laura Passoni went to Syria to join the ISIS terror group, taking along her 4-year-old son. She soon realized: "I made a very bad mistake."

We looked into a local service that overnights freshly baked bread from Paris, expecting to find a ritzy gourmet scene. Instead, the bread reminded us how ephemeral life can be.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.

A meat-and-potato pie in northern England has boldly gone where no pastry delicacy has gone before: into (near) space.

Early last year, filmmaker Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar read a news story about a young French man desperately looking for his sister who had left to join ISIS in Syria. The director could not understand what would motivate a teenage girl to do such a thing. So she set out to make a film about it.