05:29 February 2, 2024
Groundbreaking American performer Chita Rivera died on January 30 in New York. She was 91 years old. The famed dancer, singer and actor won many awar…
05:29 February 1, 2024
Canada recently announced a two-year limit on the number of foreign students given permission to study in the country. The move is partly to ease a g…
03:59 February 1, 2024
Tickets for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell …
06:28 February 1, 2024
In wealthy countries, like Japan, poverty is sometimes considered a taboo subject. But an Australian filmmaker, Rionne McAvoy, wants to share the sto…
05:23 February 1, 2024
European farmers held protests Thursday to demand government help in dealing with rising costs and environmental rules. One of the protests happened …
07:24 January 31, 2024
An unclear sonar image recorded by a private pilot has renewed interest in a past mystery: What happened to Amelia Earhart, the pilot who disappeared…
06:18 January 31, 2024
Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has placed an experimental brain device in a person in the first human test of the technology. Neuralink describ…
04:38 January 31, 2024
The African violet, a plant from Tanzania that came to the U.S. in the late 1800s, received a special honor from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). Th…
06:48 January 31, 2024
During Taiwan’s presidential election on January 13, talk about voter fraud began to spread. In one widely seen video, an election official counting …
04:15 January 30, 2024
Scientists in Berlin announced recently the first successful embryo transfer in a white rhinoceros. The transfer, which occurred in a southern white …
09:46 January 30, 2024
Britain’s King Charles was treated recently for a medical condition called enlarged prostate. American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently spent …
04:55 January 30, 2024
New research provides evidence that attacks by Myanmar’s military government have damaged religious centers in the country. Religious leaders and hum…
04:02 January 30, 2024
Fifteen American businesses, including semiconductor companies, have expressed interest in investing $8 billion in Vietnam in clean energy projects, …
02:58 January 29, 2024
The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer. A “…
03:07 January 29, 2024
Japan’s space agency says a spacecraft that landed on the moon earlier this month has regained power and is continuing its mission. Officials from th…
07:43 January 29, 2024
Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again. Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims t…
06:27 January 29, 2024
A court in Hong Kong has ordered one of China’s largest property developers to sell all its property to pay back creditors. The financial process is …
03:12 January 28, 2024
Scientists have found four groups of emperor penguins in Antarctica that they did not know about before. These groups, called “colonies,” were found …
04:23 January 28, 2024
Imagine that you are in a crowded place. You do not notice, but someone is watching you and learns your iPhone passcode. Then, they steal your phone.…
06:50 January 28, 2024
A Mars explorer has discovered new evidence of a large amount of water ice buried near the planet’s equator. The discovery was made with data collect…
05:06 January 28, 2024
Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars to become competitive in the electric vehicle (EV) industry. Such efforts are part of Saudi Crown Prince M…
07:35 January 27, 2024
Many people first heard about Apple’s Macintosh computer through a television commercial during the American football Super Bowl game in 1984. Howeve…
05:28 January 27, 2024
Thailand hopes to start producing lithium from a mine in its southwest in about two years, government and business officials say. The mine could help…
04:02 January 27, 2024
Kenya began its biggest rhino relocation project earlier this month. Workers began the difficult work of moving 21 of the endangered animals to a new…
05:29 January 26, 2024
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday announced the nominees for Hollywood’s highest movie awards --- the Oscars. As usual, ther…
03:48 January 26, 2024
Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef off America’s Atlantic coast. Researchers say the reef stretches about 500 kilometers from Florida to S…
05:27 January 26, 2024
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries. A new report found that 49 percen…
02:53 January 25, 2024
Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects. A matchstic…
04:22 January 25, 2024
An American scientist has started a tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite drink: tea. Tempest in a teapot is an expression t…
05:31 January 25, 2024
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Thursday that its first lunar mission landed within 100 meters of its target over the weekend. Japa…
04:30 January 25, 2024
A report from the United Nations says the Taliban are putting more and more restrictions on women in Afghanistan. The Taliban re-took power in Afghan…
06:53 January 24, 2024
A fake voice message claiming to be U.S. President Joe Biden was recently sent to voters in an example of possible election disinformation. The voice…
04:25 January 24, 2024
A World Health Organization (WHO) official who recently returned from the Gaza Strip said recently that the health care system is collapsing. He said…
05:43 January 24, 2024
A nonprofit group called Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is again bringing attention to crises around the world with its “Doomsday Clock.” The grou…
04:58 January 24, 2024
Life is still more costly in the United States than it was about two years ago. But new research shows Americans are starting to feel better about th…
09:08 January 23, 2024
It has become easy for students to find and copy published material. But copying another person’s writing without giving them credit can get students…
04:48 January 23, 2024
Oppenheimer, the film about the lead scientist in the American project to create a nuclear weapon, led the Academy Awards, or Oscars, with 13 nominat…
05:57 January 23, 2024
Across the north-central United States, weeds that resist control efforts are worrying farmers. This development is the latest sign that weeds are be…
05:38 January 23, 2024
China faced a review of its human rights record at the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday. All U.N. members face what is called…
08:17 January 22, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened part of a hotly disputed Hindu holy building in the northern city of Ayodhya. The temple stands at the…
05:27 January 22, 2024
Cameroon has begun the world’s first major malaria vaccine program for children. The campaign launched Monday in the Central African nation. Health o…
05:14 January 22, 2024
A large U.S. study found no evidence that taking Ozempic or Wegovy is tied to an increase in suicidal thoughts, researchers reported recently. Both O…
04:10 January 22, 2024
Enock Twagirayesu was seeking safety when he and his family fled violence in Burundi more than 10 years ago. They found it in Uganda. The small East …
05:31 January 21, 2024
Are you interested in food, United States history, and the English language? If so, American cookbooks provide wide information in all three subjects…
03:43 January 21, 2024
Archeologists have found a group of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest. The cities were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. Sté…
06:35 January 21, 2024
The American space agency NASA is preparing to test a new supersonic airplane that could help establish a new generation of superfast aircraft. The n…
03:45 January 21, 2024
Officials have ordered restrictions on shipping traffic in the Panama Canal because of reduced water levels. The latest restrictions limit ship cross…
08:01 January 20, 2024
A recent report from a higher education advising organization says nearly 40 percent of American employers avoid offering jobs to recent college grad…
07:53 January 20, 2024
The record number of immigrants entering the United States illegally has resulted in 3 million cases awaiting judgement in immigration courts around …
04:31 January 20, 2024
Developers of a proposed new city in northern California have begun presenting their plans to voters. Jan Sramek leads the project, called California…