The World Bank used a tool known as purchasing power parity to make its calculations. An improved methodology suggests China’s pro-market reforms increased rather than shrank extreme poverty.

In 2022, there was a never-before-seen billion dollars worth of vehicles stolen in Canada, and nearly all of them were exported overseas by organized crime. In West Africa, where many of the vehicles end up, authorities are pleading with Canada to stop the flow of stolen cars.

"Consider going into it on an empty stomach," said a Microsoft Travel article written using "algorithmic techniques."

Squawks, creaky doors, trills, bellows and a lot of grunts — our wildlife makes some bizarre and beguiling noises. But which one should get the shout-out as Australia's favourite animal sound? It's time to make a call.

Animals at watering holes in South Africa were twice as likely to flee in response to recordings of humans talking compared with sounds of lions

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This is not a surprise, because the company made it clear it planned to do exactly this, but Meta has now begun the process of stopping links to news sources from appearing in Canada, something tha…

Their individual stories are as fascinating as their shared ones.

A response to Matan Kaminer. By Andreas Malm

Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury

IT workers can work remotely while traveling around the country

A researcher behind a study of wasabi's effect on cognition says he knew the fiery condiment had health benefits, but "the dramatic change" in memory was a surprise.

An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the origins and evolution of Paleolithic clothing in colder climates.

The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), also known as Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба, tr. Tsar'-bómba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful human-made explosive ever detonated.

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Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond to present-day England, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were eradicated between 1064 and 1526. Most studies of ethnoreligious violence in Europe focus on communal, regional, and national political dynamics to explain its outbreak and variation. Recent scholarship shows how the Catholic Church in medieval Europe contributed to the long-term political development and the “rise of the West.”

An American scientist has sparked a trans-Atlantic tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite hot beverage.

Las Vegas spent billions into becoming a global hub for sports and entertainment. The question is, will it pay off?

In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as the land where internet policy is completely upside down. Rather than having a system that protects intermediaries from liability for third party c…

In 2007, Declan Maynes bought himself a camera, the book Film Making For Dummies and went out on his own to interview numerous tattoo artists and experts around the world. When he came back to his home in Vienna he sat down in his kitchen and edited his first feature-length film: "TATTOOED The Movie". Declan's film won acclaim at international film festivals including the prestigious INDIE SPIRIT Award.