Climate control for art and artifacts accounts for a huge share of museum carbon emissions. These protection standards have ...

Storyteller Shweta Bhatt was just thirteen when her mom took her to have her upper lip hair threaded. Many young Indian girls ...

A new database holds close to 4 million records of people enslaved in British colonies from the Caribbean to South Africa ...

Forces in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region seized three airports this week, only a few days after seven armed and political ...

The town of Betrawati Bazaar in Nepal was nearly entirely flattened by the avalanche and floods on August 26th. Locals say they don’t want to rebuild. The World’s Carolyn Beeler reports on what the ...

A study published in the medical journal The Lancet found an average rise in sudden deaths of just over three percent per year from 2010 to 2020. Causes include less healthy eating habits and stress.

Denmark is often ranked among the world’s happiest countries. It prides itself on its strong social welfare system and a culture of coziness. But for asylum seekers, things aren’t quite so comfortable ...