[ad_1] Nearly six years after a large gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters, a grand jury in Virginia has indicted several people on felony charges for carrying out burning torches with the intent to…
[ad_1] A hunting contest in rural New Zealand where children competed to kill the most feral cats for prize money has been canceled after a backlash from animal rights organisations. New Zealand, an island nation, is aggressively trying to control…
[ad_1] A new report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warns that government policies aimed at raising, lowering or maintaining the fertility rate can undermine reproductive and human rights and says that the aim is to improve gender equality…
[ad_1] The smugglers promised that the cruise ship would take them to Canada in comfort. But MV Lady 3 did not live up to such high expectations. Rusting and decrepit, the Myanmar-flag fishing boat is almost seaworthy, with no sleeping…
[ad_1] The death toll rose to 29 on Wednesday from a fire at a Beijing hospital in one of the deadliest in the Chinese capital in at least two decades. Social media shared a dramatic video of a man using…
[ad_1] Source: UN World Population Prospects, mid-year population estimate. This is a turning point that the world has not seen for centuries, and will not see again for centuries. India is on the cusp of surpassing China in population, according…
[ad_1] Street fighting and rocket attacks added to the chaos in Sudan on Tuesday as a ceasefire between the country’s two warring generals failed, paralyzing the capital and trapping civilians in their homes for fear of crossfire. Parents and children,…
[ad_1] President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visited the eastern city of Avdiivka, his office said on Tuesday, after the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had again traveled to the occupied territories of Ukraine near the front…
[ad_1] Singer and rapper Aaron Carter accidentally drowned in a bathtub because of the sedative he took and the gas used in a spray cleaner he inhaled, a coroner’s report said Tuesday. Carter, the sister of Backstreet Boys member Nick…
[ad_1] Exactly 50 years ago, Rupert Murdoch bought the first US newspaper, espousing a lifelong credo that would make him a world-shaping media baron. “We’re not here to think of ourselves as intellectuals,” the Australian mogul told US reporters after…