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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a Pashtun. That ethnic group accounts for between 40 percent and 50 percent of Afghanistan's population. The Taliban and many top officials are also Pashtun.

Afghans Confront Sensitive Issue Of Ethnicity

Afghanistan is set to issue new national IDs that will have a person's ethnicity embedded in it electronically — but not printed on it. That's renewed debate over a divisive issue in a country made up of many different groups.

Rong Mala, 30, holds her 6-day-old child, Rakhal, as she waits to see the paramedic at a government clinic in Bangladesh.

Better Bath Rituals Is One Way Bangladesh Is Saving Its Newborns

Babies need a lot of help. And they don't always get it in low- and middle-income countries, where child mortality rates are high. A Bangladeshi doctor tells how his country is making strides.

A December celebration launching a partnership between members of the Garifuna community and a doctor in New York. The collaboration is aimed at reducing the HIV infection rate among the Garifuna.

An Unlikely Alliance Fights HIV In The Bronx's Afro-Honduran Diaspora

Thousands of Garifuna people — Hondurans of African descent — live in New York City. A doctor there is reaching out to Garifuna faith healers to test and treat members of that community who have HIV.

Two policemen stand outside a mosque in Uppsala, Sweden, last month. The mosque was firebombed on Jan. 1 in one of three arson attacks targeting the Muslim community in Sweden since Christmas Day.

Sweden's Immigrant Influx Unleashes A Backlash

Long welcoming of refugees and asylum-seekers, Sweden is now seeing growing resentment. An anti-immigration party is gaining strength, mosques have been firebombed and anti-Semitism seems on the rise.

Residents wait at the bus stop in the Ronna neighborhood, where Syrian and Iraqi refugees are concentrated in Södertalje, Sweden. The small Swedish city is known for its open-door policy toward refugees, which is mostly made up of Christian Syrians and Iraqis. People of Middle East origin account for 30,000 of the town's 90,000 residents.

Sweden's Immigrant Influx Unleashes A Backlash

Long welcoming of refugees and asylum-seekers, Sweden is now seeing a backlash. An anti-immigration party is gaining strength, mosques have been fire-bombed, and anti-Semitism appears on the rise.

Why Is Nearsightedness Skyrocketing Among Chinese Youth?

More than 80 percent of high school students in Shanghai are myopic. A new study finds a link between higher income and poor eyesight. But the root cause is still hotly debated.

ISIS Is Killing, Torturing, Using Children As Suicide Bombers, Says U.N. Report

The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said it's reviewed reports of the mass execution of boys and of beheadings, crucifixions and the burying of children alive.

"Serial (Bad) Weddings" opens the 25th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival on Feb. 5. The film tackles issues of race and religion with humor as it follows a Catholic couple whose daughters marry a Muslim, a Jew, a Chinese immigrant, and an African.

San Diego Jewish Film Fest Celebrates A Quarter Century

Festival Kicks Off With A Comedy About Race and Religion

No Genocide Proven In 1990s Serbia-Croatia Conflict, Court Rules

The conflict that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s included widespread violence, says the International Court of Justice. But it adds that the acts can't be deemed genocide.

Heather Quinlan searched for New York accents around the city for her documentary If These Knishes Could Talk. She holds up a sign at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan.

Fuggedabout It: New York Accent On Its Way Out, Linguists Say

New York City is home to more than 700 languages including distinct "New Yorker" accents. A new exhibit examines how changes in the city's population are contributing to their decline.

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