More than 90% of Brazilian adults have adopted the use of Pix for their financial transactions. It’s simplified payments and ...

Iranian activists and dissidents who live abroad are often trailed and harassed by government agents from Iran. One woman ...

More than 4,000 Americans applied for British citizenship in the first half of this year — a record number and a 39% increase ...

As a ceasefire to end the war in Gaza goes into effect, there have also been gun battles inside the Gaza Strip between Hamas and rival groups. Also, Kenyans mourn the death of key opposition leader ...

As Israelis and Palestinians celebrated the ceasefire in Gaza, a video made the rounds on social media. It appears to show Hamas gunmen executing a group of eight men in the street in Gaza City, ...

It takes an average of four to six months for a thru-hiker to complete the Pacific Crest Trail. Julie Brock however, a 59-year-old runner from Australia, finished in just over two months. The World’s ...

Revered Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who died this week at age 80, played a pivotal role in institutionalizing multiparty democracy and shaping Kenya’s constitution. But he was also known as ...

The Terada Honke sake brewery is like a shrine to the microorganisms brewers must cooperate with to make sake. The workers there sing traditional songs as they pound steamed rice to make a ...

Every year, a sleepy town 50 miles north of Lagos, Nigeria, holds the World Twins Festival. It’s a celebration of the community’s unusually high rate of twin births — about 50 twins per thousand ...