The world’s longest commercial flight lasting 29 hours and covering 12,400 miles – around half the circumference of the globe ...

A new report from the World Meteorological Organization delivers a stark warning: climate change is accelerating, with some impacts now irreversible for centuries. The State of the Global Climate ...

You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of ...

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election on Thursday, May 8, as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Hailing from ...

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025—Heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty are expected to drive global growth down this year to its slowest pace since 2008 outside of outright global recessions, ...

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled Wednesday a mobile device designed to help people determine the difference ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

On a recent visit to Ethiopia, aid recipients applauded Edgar Sandoval. “They probably didn’t know that the program was coming to an end,” he said. Founded 75 years ago, World Vision has grown into ...

Jakarta is now the world's largest city by population. The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, is home to nearly 42 million, according to a new report from the United Nations, making it the most densely ...

A convicted murderer sentenced to life behind bars is suing his prison because they won’t let him eat Vegemite. Andre McKechnie, 54, said the Victoria jail deprives him of his right to “enjoy his ...