He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

A teacher at Drakensburg Secondary School in South Africa is under investigation for allegedly cutting off a Hindu student's religious thread. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha has condemned the ...

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Luis Rubiales kissed Jennifer Hermoso on the lips after the country’s national team won the 2023 Women’s World Cup. On Monday, she testified against him and other former officials. As Canada ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about one in eight people on Earth. Check the Ramsar’s official website, leading entity for this ...

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Archaeologists have discovered what could be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, carved into the floor of a rock ...

The rankings of the top 10 most powerful countries out of 195 in the world in 2025 are compiled by US News using the following methodology. The power sub-ranking from US News is based upon an ...

More than 200 undersea tremors were recorded off the coast of several Aegean Sea islands over the last few days - the largest of which measured a magnitude of 4.9. There has been a further 4.2 ...

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