2024-01-07 Singapore to End Cat Ban in Public Housing
Sunny is a proud Singaporean citizen who follows the laws of her country. Mostly, anyway. For the last three years, she has been illegally sheltering a cat called Mooncake. A…
2024-01-06 Chilean Grandmother Is a Top Video Game Player
Few players of the online video game Free Fire know that one of their top opponents is an 81-year-old grandmother from rural Chile. From her professional gaming chair at home…
2024-01-04 Plane Crash in Tokyo Raises Design Concerns
Investigators are studying what went wrong when a Japanese coast guard aircraft and a passenger jet crashed into each other on Tuesday at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Officials want to…
2024-01-04 American Teenager Becomes First Human to Beat Video Game Tetris
A 13-year-old American boy has become the first person ever to beat the popular video game Tetris. The young gamer, Willis Gibson, completed 157 levels of Tetris before the game…
2024-01-03 Record Half-million Migrants Crossed Dangerous Darien Gap Last Year
A record 520,000 migrants crossed the difficult and dangerous Darien Gap wilderness area between Colombia and Panama in 2023. Panamanian officials say that total is more than double the number…
2024-01-03 Displaced Afghans Cross Borders to Survive
The desert in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan is filled with hundreds of thousands of people. Some live in tents. Others live out in the open after they were forced…
2024-01-02 Growth Slows, but World’s Population Moves Past 8 Billion to Start 2024
A U.S. government agency says the world’s population grew by about 75 million people in 2023. The U.S. Census Bureau notes the worldwide growth rate in the past year was…
2024-01-02 Japanese Rescuers Search for Survivors after Deadly Earthquake
A series of powerful earthquakes in western Japan have left at least 55 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, automobiles and boats. The first quake struck New Year’s Day,…
2024-01-01 How Connected Are You to the World?
Saodat Sadikova is an English teacher in Jizzakh, Uzbekistan. As a young girl, she dreamed of becoming a flight attendant and traveling the world. Her parents told her she would…
2023-12-31 Mexican ‘Nuns’ Grow Cannabis
Beneath each full moon, a group of women in religious clothing surround a fire near a village in central Mexico. They breathe in deeply from a joint and blow clouds…
2023-12-28 US Data Shows More Women Live in East, More Men in West
Official population data show more men live in the western United States, while more women live in the East and South. The data was collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.…
2023-12-26 Saudi Arabia’s Involvement in Sports Likely to Grow in 2024
At the beginning of 2023, Saudi Arabia’s growing influence on professional golf, and sports in general, was a concern for players and their fans. Twelve months later, discussions are very…
2023-12-25 Rohingya Girls Forced into Dangerous Marriages in Malaysia
The Rohingya girl from Myanmar wanted to do anything she could to provide some money for her parents and three younger siblings. They needed food. The 14-year-old and her family…
2023-12-24 Ukraine’s Army Struggles with Mental Effects of Combat
Mental health expert Oleh Hukovskyi recently stood in a temporary classroom in eastern Ukraine speaking to a group of soldiers. They were attending a class on how to deal with…
2023-12-21 Thailand Pushes ‘Land Bridge’ to Speed Trade
Thailand is looking for investment to build a “land bridge” across the narrow southern part of the country. The Southeast Asian nation hopes to provide a shorter path for cargo…