Giddes Chalamanda is a legend in Malawi. In one his biggest hits, he sings: "If I had enough money, I would go to America." It's finally happening.

A year before he was one of 250 killed in last weekend's Baghdad bombing, Adel Al-Jaf said: "One day I'll leave Iraq and go to a place where people love dancing and they're not fighting it."

Meet C.W. Stoneking — an Australian who has put his own spin on the blues.

Kids growing up in Canada used to grab some old hockey sticks, a tennis ball, and a couple of soda cans to mark out goals in the street, and play. Many Canadian cities now discourage or even ban street hockey as unsafe.

Aki Kumar left his home in Mumbai to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But then, Kumar discovered American blues and everything changed.

Unlike others, the filmmaker stayed in Iran for decades after the 1979 revolution, presenting a human, compassionate side of his homeland.

With his cropped black hair, button-down shirt, and hipster shoulder bag, it’s hard to imagine Nawang was once a 7-year-old sheep herder hoping to score sweets from a visiting foreigner. But one day, he made a life-changing chocolate request from an Oxford professor who had come to his village to conduct fieldwork.

Ray Kwong saw how his family's Chinese heritage came with "cultural baggage" when it came to treating his father's disease.

The case is closed on two capybaras who made a daring escape from a Toronto zoo last month. They're now safely back at home.

When a Syrian refugee moved into the Jellinek family's home in Berlin, he got help with his German. And the Jewish family developed a new appreciation for their country.