From super-sized natural wonders and man-made marvels to some of the weirdest, creepiest, and teeny-tiniest sights, we take a ...

Just a couple of miles from Mérida in Spain, Proserpina Dam was constructed during Roman rule around AD 100, with various ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world’s largest remaining legal domestic markets ...

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) – considered the world’s largest humanitarian organisation – was at the forefront of the global response to the devastating Ethiopian Famine of 1984 and 1985, ...

The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations. By John Yoon Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded ...

Two conversations have stayed with me over the past 25 years. Around 2001, a European Union official in Beijing — where I was then a UK diplomat — told a group of us that the reason countries such as ...

When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sat down in South Korea last month to discuss a pause in their trade war, Taiwan surprisingly didn’t come up. Now the biggest flashpoint between the US and China is ...

Earlier this month, Counterpoint Research published two intelligence reports showing that Apple is outpacing the rest of the phone market, thanks in large part to the iPhone 17 line. The first report ...

China has launched the world's first commercial supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) power generator, an innovative clean-energy breakthrough developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) ...

The world has a new most populous city. Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, tops a ranking that is increasingly dominated by Asia. It edged out Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and Japan's Tokyo to earn the ...

China's bitcoin mining market share rebounds to 3rd globally, Hashrate Index shows Beijing’s softening stance, cheap electricity attract crypto miners Bitcoin seen as strategic asset amid Sino-US ...