In 2024, an average of nearly two migrant boats reached the Canary Islands each day. 692 boats in all, carried more than ...

In 2021, six women — two pilots and four cabin crew — participated in Afghanistan’s first-ever, all-female flight. It was a ...

After months of back and forth, Hamas and Israel appear to have reached a ceasefire deal. The agreement, which was mediated ...

Along the front lines between Russia and Ukraine, battles are fierce and the casualty numbers are mounting. In response, ...

After months of back and forth, Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal. Also, Yoon Suk Yeol becomes South Korea’s first sitting president to be placed under arrest. And, the outcome of the ...

In 2024, there were 692 packed, wooden boats that reached the Atlantic Archipelago off the west coast of mainland Europe, carrying in total more than 47,000 people. Most came to the tiny, western-most ...

Donna Burke has the most famous voice you’ve never heard about. The Australian first moved to Japan in the 1990s, hoping to make it as a singer. Now, she’s the voice of the Tokaido Shinkansen, ...

BMI, or Body Mass Index, is often used to determine obesity. But a new report by a group of international researchers suggests that there may have been an overreliance on BMI to determine whether ...

South African authorities sought to end illegal gold mining in a derelict gold mine in Stilfontein. Their strategy was to cut off the supplies that were being sent down to the miners to keep them ...

US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about what he’s accomplished as top US Envoy in Beijing, and the fraught relations between the two superpowers as ...

After defying government investigators for weeks, Yoon Suk Yeol became South Korea’s first sitting president to be placed under arrest. Around 1,000 security officers moved in on the president’s ...

Judges at South Korea's Constitutional Court get underway with a trial this week that could remove the country's president ...