What Is Juneteenth? The History Of This Holiday, Meaning And Important Facts
The official name of the federal holiday is Juneteenth The yearly celebration of Juneteenth National Independence Day, also known as...
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Canadian Sikh Sarwan Singh Breaks His Own Guinness Record For World’s Longest Beard – Watch
New Delhi: Canadian Sikh Sarwan Singh has broken his own Guinness World Record for the longest beard on a living...
Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Woman Rescued Alive in Sanliurfa 22 Hours After Earthquake Struck – WATCH
ISTANBUL: A woman has been rescued alive nearly 22 hours after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Turkey and...
Live updates: Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody
Wrecked houses are seen after the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. (Martin Cleaver/AP)A lot has happened between the Pan Am...
World Bank’s David Malpass Says He Isn’t Resigning Amid Criticism of His Climate Views
WASHINGTON—World Bank President David Malpass said Friday he wasn’t resigning from his position amid calls from climate advocates for him...
China’s Industrial Profit Falls on Covid-19 Measures, Bad Weather
China’s industrial profit dropped in the first seven months of the year, reversing a year-on-year increase in the first half...
Heat in Europe Is Driving Up Olive Oil Prices
Soaring temperatures in Spain this summer are expected to hit the country’s olive oil production, pushing up prices and threatening...
She fled Afghanistan with her law degree sewn into her dress. Many of her colleagues were left behind
Last August, as the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, they shuttered the Elimination of Violence Against Women...
Appalled, devastated and worried. How the world is reacting to the attack on Salman Rushdie
The Indian-born British author, who has received death threats for his 1988 book, "The Satanic Verses," is on a ventilator...
First mission to return samples from another planet set to land on Earth in 2033
As Perseverance investigates the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it's collecting rocks and soil....
War and energy woes push the climate crisis to the back seat in an endless vicious cycle
At the same time, Europe more widely is devouring enormous amounts of liquefied natural gas -- a harmful fossil fuel...
Extreme heat is baking a country woefully unprepared for the climate crisis
Americans are used to switching on their air conditioners any time temperatures near 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius). But...
Ancient fortress found by archaeologists may be a lost royal city
With the help of drone photography, archaeologists excavated and cataloged the site during a series of digs between 2009 and...
Top Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina comes out as gay
Daria Kasatkina, currently ranked No. 12 in the world, told a Russian blogger that she is in a relationship with...
US concerned at China’s ‘alignment’ with Russia, Blinken says
Both diplomats described their first in-person talks since October as "candid", with the meeting taking place a day after they...
European Parliament says natural gas projects can be considered ‘green’ for investments
The new rules, if accepted by member states, could unlock billions of dollars of private investment and state subsidies for...
Palestinians to let US examine bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
The Al Jazeera journalist was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on...
More than 300,000 killed in decade of Syrian conflict, UN says
"The conflict-related casualty figures in the report are not simply a set of abstract numbers but represent individual human beings,"...
Analysis: World leaders are facing crises on all fronts. Putin will be watching if they fail
But global events have since overtaken their best efforts, and it is far from clear if they will be able...
In photos: Deadly earthquake hits Afghanistan
Men stand around the bodies of people killed in an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, on Thursday,...
