Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been toppled by rebels and has fled to Russia. Syrians awoke on Monday to a more hopeful, but very uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital ...

A Yamuna activist on Tuesday wrote to lieutenant governor VK Saxena and Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, flagging excessive usage of defoamers in the Yamuna for a prolonged period, and highlighting ...

MANILA, Philippines – Cash or credit card? For the Commission on Audit (COA), cash is the only acceptable mode of payment for official transactions after flagging the Film Development Council of the ...

One Tuesday night, 11 days before she was due to give birth, Katherine Cribbs took a bath. Usually, Cribbs could feel her baby son moving and playing inside her womb when she was in the water. But ...

In recent weeks, drug regulatory and enforcement agencies in India have launched widespread raids and filed cases against illegal suppliers of codeine-based cough syrups, highlighting both their ...

On December 17, people across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and in Kurdish communities around the world, commemorated Kurdistan Flag Day. The day is meant to celebrate the Kurdish flag and focus on the ...

Indians are embracing delivery apps, placing millions of orders every day for everything from biryani to cell phones. Swiggy, one of India’s biggest on-demand convenience platforms, received 923 ...

Cotton farmers are in the trenches of nurturing their high-intensive crop. For Georgia farmers, extremely wet conditions created a slow start, but as the crop popped up, farmers like the Musselwhites ...

Plastic pervades modern life, and menstruation is no exception. Since the middle of the 20 th century, many tampons and menstrual pads have contained somewhere between a little and a lot of plastic in ...

Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ideological roots, and the hidden environmental and societal costs of OpenAI’s quest for artificial general intelligence.