2024-09-18 How to Move an Elephant
When it comes to the business of moving elephants, Dr. Amir Khalil and his team might be the best. The work experience of this Egyptian animal doctor includes possibly the…
2024-09-17 US Report: Share of Foreign-born in US Grows to Highest Level in 100 Years
Last year, the percentage of U.S. residents who were foreign-born grew to its highest level in more than 100 years. Recently, the U.S. Census Bureau released its yearly American Community…
2024-09-11 Turkey’s Homeless Dogs Find Families in Other Countries
A law that recently passed in Turkey requires the country’s four million stray dogs to be impounded, or put in animal shelters. The legislation aims to place all strays into…
2024-09-09 Deadly Typhoon Yagi Hits Factories in Northern Vietnam
A powerful ocean storm caused deadly floods and landslides in the northern part of Vietnam over the weekend. Typhoon Yagi is the strongest such storm to hit the country in…
2024-09-08 Gazan Teen Musician Sings for Children at War
In the war-damaged streets of northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, 15-year-old Youssef Saad rides his bicycle with his musical instrument strapped on his back. The instrument he carries is called…
2024-09-07 In Taiwan, Turning Trash into Sunglasses
A workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, is giving new life to bottle caps, food packaging, old toys, and other kinds of plastic waste. The zero-waste workshop known as Trash Kitchen gives…
2024-09-05 Japan Considers Four-day Work Weeks
Japan is a nation so hardworking that the Japanese language has a term for working oneself to death. Now, the government is trying to deal with a labor shortage. One…
2024-09-04 Women in Chad Seek Right to Own, Control Land
When Milla Nemoudji divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without a way to earn a living. The 28-year-old lived in a village in southern Chad.…
2024-09-02 Man Jailed for Poaching, Now Protects Zimbabwe’s Natural Resources
A Zimbabwean who formerly hunted animals illegally is now in a program that turns such poachers into protectors of wildlife. Forty-seven-year-old Tembanechako Mastick grew up hunting, a tradition in his…
2024-09-01 Nigerian Herders Bring Cows to City in Search of Grass
Angry drivers honk as cattle slowly march across and feed on the grass in the middle of the streets. It is a common sight for drivers in Nigeria’s capital city…
2024-08-29 Florida’s Snake Hunters
It is after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock’s pickup truck. He smiles as he slowly drives through the sawgrass and down dirt roads deep in the…
2024-08-27 Biggest Diamond in 100 Years Discovered in Botswana
Miners in Botswana recently unearthed what officials say is the second largest diamond in mining history. The country’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi presented the large stone to the public at a…
2024-08-26 Sea Lions Gather on California Beach, People Should Let Them Rest
Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, causing officials to close the area to people. Drawn to the animals, people still gather to…
2024-08-26 Experts: China’s ‘Birth-friendly’ Society at Odds with Urbanization Plans
Mary Meng, a busy worker at a Chinese technology company in Shanghai, says she cannot imagine having a second child. “The work pressure is such that you don’t even have…
2024-08-25 Uganda’s Motorcycle Taxis Resist Safety Rules
For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas are a necessary…