Month: January 2021

Vietnamese rapper Suboi appeared in a YouTube video with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tom Hanks and Aung San Suu Kyi. The video shows memorable moments from U.S. President Barack Obama’s…

Iranians are remembering former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. He was 82 years old. State television suspended programming to announce the death.…

Oil industry leaders and experts have conflicting opinions about what the policies of U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump could mean for the oil industry. Low oil prices have hurt profits for…

Khan Lab School is bringing back the one-room model to teach young students in Mountain View, California. The school is a laboratory for an experimental kind of learning. Silicon Valley,…

Many Kenyans were surprised after the education minister released results of the country’s 2016 university entrance exam. Just 15 percent of the more than 500,000 students who took the exam…

The United States will continue to investigate unsolved murders of black people during the civil rights period. President Barack Obama recently signed into law a bill that continues a 2008…

South Korean officials hoped 2017 would start with building excitement for the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The games begin on February 9, 2018. But instead, the country faces a…

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often had a difficult relationship with the Internet. The government has repeatedly attempted to restrict news and social media websites during…

Antonio Guterres became the ninth United Nations Secretary-General on Sunday. The term of former U.N. leader Ban Ki-Moon ended at midnight, December 31. Guterres is a former prime minister of…

Republican lawmakers in the United States Congress have suspended plans to weaken an office that investigates possible ethics violations. At a closed-door meeting Monday night, Republican members of the House…

China and Nepal are preparing to hold their first-ever joint military exercises, officials from both countries confirmed. A spokesman for China’s Defense Ministry said last week the two nations had…

Officials in Bahrain are searching for ten escaped prisoners charged with terrorism. The prisoners escaped after armed gunmen attacked Jaw prison, located south of the capital city Manama, on Sunday.…

Some European leaders are worried that Russia will try to influence their elections this year. The concerns come as possible Russian interference in the United States presidential election last year…

Recently, dangerous levels of air pollution spread over several major cities in China. The problem shows that China has much to do to fight pollution. But China is also changing…

Debbie Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, said his mother told him that the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, was “too much” for her. On Wednesday, one day after Fisher’s death,…