Saudi Arabia has spent years trying to build an economy that is less dependent on crude oil. Now, a newly announced discovery in the Madinah region could give that strategy another major resource to w...
For generations, millions of people have learned geography from a familiar rectangular world map. Europe sits prominently near the top, Greenland looks enormous, and Africa appears surprisingly small ...
A photograph appearing to show Donald Trump kissing his executive assistant Natalie Harp has exploded across social media, prompting speculation about the nature of their relationship. But there is a ...
Africa is not getting bigger. Europe is not shrinking. Greenland has not suddenly lost millions of square kilometers. Yet the familiar world map hanging in classrooms, appearing in textbooks and survi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulations to Giorgia Meloni were meant to celebrate a rare achievement in Italian politics. Instead, the message quickly became part of a very different political ...
More than a week after catastrophic flooding tore through Nepal’s Himalayan valleys, the country’s most desperate rescue effort is taking place somewhere few people can see. Deep inside damaged hydrop...
Donald Trump is already looking past the Iran war. Even as American and Iranian forces continue trading attacks and the conflict remains unresolved, the Trump administration is reportedly drafting a m...
Twenty-five years after its creation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has become much bigger, more visible and more ambitious. It now brings together countries representing roughly a quarter of ...
In Nepal’s flood-ravaged Devighat, crossing the Trishuli River was once an ordinary part of daily life. Now it can mean climbing into a makeshift carrier suspended from a cable and being pulled ...
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano has once again demonstrated how quickly a natural event in the Sunda Strait can disrupt life far beyond the immediate eruption zone, sending volcanic ash high i...