The 2023 International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrates women and girls who have devoted themselves to science and the advancement of human… Read More »Statement: Building a future of scientific progress and gender equality
The China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance program… Read More »US says Chinese spy balloon part of aerial surveillance program targeting more than 40 countries
Legendary American pop composer, songwriter and pianist Burt Bacharach, whose prolific output provided a chart-topping playlist for the 1960s and 1970s with hits like “I… Read More »Award-winning American songwriter Burt Bacharach dies at 94
Some 222 inmates considered by many to be political prisoners of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega flew to Washington on Thursday, a senior… Read More »More than 200 freed Nicaraguan anti-government protesters, opposition leaders en route to US
Somali-born model Waris Dirie on convincing her mother to stop relatives undergoing the practice.
As rescue workers continued to search for survivors of the earthquake that happened on February 6, residents of Syria’s northwestern opposition-controlled territories were forced to… Read More »‘It’s heartbreaking’: In Syria’s rebel zones, volunteers dig mass graves for quake victims
Amira Bouraoui, banned from leaving Algeria, makes it to France via Tunisia sparking a diplomatic row.
More than 72 hours after the catastrophic quakes that ravaged southern Turkey, residents of Atalar, a mountainous village west of Gaziantep, are still waiting for… Read More »In Turkish village flattened by quake, ‘no tents, no shelter, only cars to sleep in’
Four people including a Nigerian senator are accused of being part of an organ harvesting plot.
Peruvian Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa was set to join the fabled Academie Francaise in Paris on Thursday, the first member never to have written… Read More »Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa joins Académie Française
