Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. His presidency was marked by rising inflation and unemployment. He helped negotiate a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. He returned the Panama Canal to the Central American countr...
Japanese business leader Masayoshi Son and President-elect Donald Trump recently met at Trump's property, Mar-a-Lago, in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida. They announced plans for SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United...
One by one, volunteers rescue and repair toys that show the marks of use. They sew clothing and brush fur and hair, add filling and dress the toys. The workers are fixing them to again be given to children. This is the work of the Hospital for Soft T...
The capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan, has seen big changes in its high-end housing market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices. Omidullah, a real estate agent, is selling a white-and-gold house with nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms in th...
Vice President Kamala Harris and pop singer Chappell Roan were among the year's most talked-about people. Their names were also among those people said incorrectly, or mispronounced. In early December, the language-learning company Babbel and The Cap...
In Ecuador, power outages threaten ice cream businesses in the small town of Salcedo in the country's central highlands. Ice cream production in Salcedo began in the middle of the 1900s. Women working in a Roman Catholic religious center there would...
Report: Wealth Held by Billionaires Jumped in 2024 The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Billionaire Ambitions Report for 2024 said the total number of billionaires worldwide had risen to 2,682 from 2,544 a year earlier. Their worth increased to $14 tr...
California Proposes Plan to Protect Its Famous Joshua Trees The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a proposed plan to protect the state's famous Joshua trees. Environmentalists say the trees are threatened by wildfires, human dev...
People on Island Near Singapore Face Uncertain Future A short boat ride from the wealthy city-state of Singapore is something rare - a small, quiet island. People living on Pulau Ubin still talk about the arrival of solar power 11 years ago. They cal...
What to Know about South Korea's Short Period of Martial Law South Korea's parliament moved to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and sent troops into the streets on Tuesday night. For several hours, armed forces with helic...
South Korean Man Guilty of Gaining Weight to Avoid Military Service A South Korean court has found a man guilty of purposefully gaining weight to avoid completing required service in the country's military. Seoul's Eastern District Court sentenced th...
Rohingya Men Leaving Refugee Camps to Fight in Myanmar The Rohingya are an ethnic group from Myanmar. They have been displaced from that country and many now live in some of the world's largest refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. Recently, Reute...
Mysterious Creature from Argentina Has Made Its Home in Dubai Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is known for its tall, modern buildings rising high above the desert. But an unusual animal from Argentina, the Patagonian mara, can be found there, too....
Mysterious Shoe Thief Identified Police suspected someone was stealing shoes from a children's school in southwestern Japan. But a security camera caught the thief in action. It was a weasel! The small animal with a long body and short legs usually h...
Would You Pay $344 for a Coffee? A Scottish dairy, or milk cow farm, is offering what it calls Britain's costliest coffee: one cup for $344. It is a huge price for a little cup of coffee, but the man selling it offers a deal sweetener: a share of a d...
