WEF: Misinformation, Weather Top Worldwide Risks A report from the World Economic Forum says misinformation and disinformation are the most severe risks facing the world over the next two years. The group released its latest Global Risks Report Wedne...
In Ecuador, Gunmen Take over Live Broadcast Officials in Ecuador say men with face coverings broke into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast on Tuesday. That led the president to declare...
Disaster in the Air Narrowly Avoided Passengers are describing what happened when part of a passenger jet came off at the start of a flight from Portland, Oregon last Friday. The incident resulted in no serious injuries, and the plane returned to Por...
US Agency Investigates Passenger Jet Incident Officials have recovered a part of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max passenger jet that blew off during a flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California on Friday. The plane was minutes into the flig...
Singapore to End Cat Ban in Public Housing Sunny is a proud Singaporean citizen who follows the laws of her country. Mostly, anyway. For the last three years, she has been illegally sheltering a cat called Mooncake. A 34-year-old Singaporean law bars...
Chilean Grandmother Is a Top Video Game Player Few players of the online video game Free Fire know that one of their top opponents is an 81-year-old grandmother from rural Chile. From her professional gaming chair at home in a small village, Maria El...
Plane Crash in Tokyo Raises Design Concerns Investigators are studying what went wrong when a Japanese coast guard aircraft and a passenger jet crashed into each other on Tuesday at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Officials want to find out what caused the...
American Teenager Becomes First Human to Beat Video Game Tetris A 13-year-old American boy has become the first person ever to beat the popular video game Tetris. The young gamer, Willis Gibson, completed 157 levels of Tetris before the game technica...
Record Half-million Migrants Crossed Dangerous Darien Gap Last Year 2023年穿越达连峡谷人数创新纪录 A record 520,000 migrants crossed the difficult and dangerous Darien Gap wilderness area between Colombia and Panama in 2023. Panamanian o...
Displaced Afghans Cross Borders to Survive The desert in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan is filled with hundreds of thousands of people. Some live in tents. Others live out in the open after they were forced to leave neighboring Pakistan. More t...
Growth Slows, but Worlds Population Moves Past 8 Billion to Start 2024 A U.S. government agency says the world's population grew by about 75 million people in 2023. The U.S. Census Bureau notes the worldwide growth rate in the past year was just unde...
Japanese Rescuers Search for Survivors after Deadly Earthquake 日本救援人员搜寻地震幸存者 A series of powerful earthquakes in western Japan have left at least 55 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, automobiles and boats. 日本...
How Connected Are You to the World? Saodat Sadikova is an English teacher in Jizzakh, Uzbekistan. As a young girl, she dreamed of becoming a flight attendant and traveling the world. Her parents told her she would have to learn at least three languag...
