Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece ...

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A towering, 27-foot-tall statue of Buddha will stand on Manhattan’s High Line next year as a new art installation in the ...

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, ...

SUNDAY UPDATE: Disney’s Zootopia 2 has continued its wild ride throughout this weekend, landing the biggest global launch for any movie in 2025 at an estimated $556.4M through Sunday. The ...

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) ...