While on assignment, reporter Matt Pearce stopped by a Somali restaurant and ordered a rice and lamb platter. Along with his food, came a banana. Things got interesting from there.

Kwv txhiaj is a Hmong musical form that has its origins in southern China and Southeast Asia, is several centuries old and is kept alive through its singers. One of them happens to call the US Midwest home.

Debo Band is about as eclectic as musical fusion groups get. Well, now even more eclectic.

Electro-cumbia has been around for years. But La Yegros is taking it to a new level.

They change colors, kill baby ducklings and have sold for $150,000. What's crazy is that decades ago, Asian arowanas were eaten for food.

By now you've seen the photo: President Obama and Anthony Bourdain at a little Hanoi diner sharing beers and supper. Here's more on what was in their bowls.

Moroccan cities and desert locales have served as stand-ins for many movies actually set in other Middle East countries. But some in Morocco would like their country to play itself more often on the big screen

President Barack Obama will touch down in Hanoi on Sunday. He’s just the third US president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War. This woman escaped that war — and found out that it’s never too late to heal.

In 1914, a shipload of would-be immigrants from India were roughly handled and turned away. Canada's government of the time wanted to keep the country white. Finally, a prime minister has acknowledged Canada was wrong on the record.

Some of Eddie Palmieri's earliest fans were members of the violent anti-government group, the Weather Underground.