Afghanistan’s national women’s cricket team was formed in 2020, prompted by the rules of the International Cricket Council, ...

Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese citizens were forced to flee their country in the early 1990s. Today, they remain in ...

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a new military offensive designed to “capture” Gaza and hold it indefinitely. The plan ...

Since last month’s deadly attack in Kashmir, when gunmen opened fire on mostly Indian tourists, killing 26, India and Pakistan’s already tense relationship is in even greater crisis. Last week, a ...

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a new military offensive designed to “capture” Gaza and hold it indefinitely. The plan entails relocating many of Gaza’s 2 million residents to the south and ...

Skype has been shut down by its owner Microsoft today. It comes more than two decades after its inital launch in 2003. Skype was among the most popular chat services across the globe until the rise of ...

North Korea confirmed that it sent troops to fight in Ukraine, but with tens of thousands of Russians killed in the fighting, the Wall Street Journal reports that Moscow is now turning to Pyongyang to ...

Anyone around in the 1980s might recall the hand wringing over “test tube” babies, conceived in IVF labs. That now seems quaint — today, more than 1 in 50 US babies are conceived by IVF — but on the ...

A new book by journalist Ted Genoways sheds light on the obscure history behind Mexico’s most iconic spirit. Once little-known outside its homeland, tequila found unexpected fame during US Prohibition ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to come hurling down back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, but never made it. Instead, ...

Musician El León Pardo has pronounced himself king of Cumbia Espacial, or Space Cumbia. It’s here that he’s created a tropical, psychedelic-like world where the coral is constantly changing color and ...

Two quick election updates today. The first from Romania, where the far-right candidate George Simion won a decisive victory yesterday in the first round of the presidential election. And then to ...