How can a land that lies west of us and many other Asian countries be called “middle,” and, to top it off, have “east” in its name? The answer lies in how the term came into being. It was popularised ...

Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear ...

A map in the Global Terrorism Index 2026 shows a map that appears to place parts of Jammu and Kashmir within China.The graphic, which charts terror activity across Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2007 ...

Are young Japanese voting based on an “idol effect” – or are they redefining entirely what it means to be liberal vs conservative?

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville, Florida features giant Victoria water lilies, the Southeast’s largest herb garden, ...

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Global trade has become increasingly fragmented amid rising geopolitical tensions and the rapidly shifting United States tariff regime. Companies ...

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My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...

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BANGKOK – PM2.5, the tiny air pollutant people can’t see, keeps chipping away at health across Thailand and especially in Chiang Rai. New figures from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), created by the ...