The last time the U.N. released its "World Urbanization Prospects" report was in 2018, when Tokyo was the world's most ...

As this year’s harvest ends, small Central Valley towns that rely on migrant or undocumented labor to survive face the end of ...

Not helping women plan pregnancies is a missed opportunity to reduce PNG's birth rate and related pressures on public ...

It was pitches in 2015-16, it was the tosses in 2019-20, but India took the pitch and the toss out of the equation in dismissing South Africa for 159 on the first day of the 2025-26  series. The ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year's Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday. The 0.9% increase in ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists ...

Riverfront Fort Wayne celebrated World Rivers Day with a free, fun, and family-friendly event on Saturday at Promenade Park. Local environmental and conservation organizations offered hands on ...

PORT MORESBY, September 18, 2025 - The World Bank has announced the appointment of Han Fraeters as the World Bank's Division Director for Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, effective ...

TOKYO (AP) — This photo gallery, curated by AP photo editors, features early track and field highlights from Day 3 of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. With many key pieces in place for 2026 ...

According to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the father of at least a dozen children, the greatest potential risk to the future of civilisation is population collapse. Taking a very long-term ...

The next World Youth Day, scheduled for Aug. 3–8, 2027, will mark a historic milestone for the Catholic Church: the first time the global gathering of Catholic youth will be held in a non-Christian ...

TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...