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Ashish Sharma, from our partners at DW, Deutsche Welle, tells the story of a soccer team started by the Spanish Commission ...
The Florida Panthers won the NHL’s coveted Stanley Cup this year. Now, the trophy is on its annual 100-day summer tour to visit the winning players and staff members’ hometowns. The World’s Bianca ...
It came as a big surprise when Catholic cardinals picked an American to be the successor of Pope Francis back in early May. But as Leo XIV begins his papacy, he’s offered few — if any — real surprises ...
The president of Peru is considering signing a bill that would grant amnesty to people accused of crimes during a period of violence in the 1980s and ’90s. More than 70,000 people were killed during a ...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to start up new tariffs on dozens of countries, sowing more uncertainty in the global economy. Also, scientists are developing an early warning ...
Landslides triggered by heavy rains are a recurring nightmare in India’s hilly areas. In terms of lives lost, India is the worst-affected in the world. And scientists say that extreme rainfall linked ...
A new study has found surprisingly high rates of long-COVID in Ethiopia and Uganda. Of about 2,000 participants, more than two-thirds were found to struggle with long-term complications from an ...
When President Donald Trump dismantled USAID this year, relief materials got stranded around the world. In Belgium, nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies in ...
With a few strokes of a big black marker, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to start up new tariffs on dozens of countries. While the move follows last-minute deals with a handful of ...
Wacken Open Air is the biggest heavy metal festival in the world. It attracts more than 80,000 attendees each year — that’s 40 times the population of the village of Wacken in Germany, where the ...
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down today after less than a year in the job. He’s denied any wrongdoing but said that scandals are hindering the government’s work. Several media ...
Ben Bathke from our partners DW, Deutsche Welle, reports on what European nations can learn from Estonia's digital government services.