To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

The lights on the historic building at the Grand Place were switched off for one hour as part of the international "Earth Hour" campaign launched by the non-governmental organization WWF. Wiktor ...

How the world votes The voting age of 18 is still the dominant age. It is the minimum voting age practised around the world – in 202 countries to be exact. Only 10 countries have a minimum voting age ...

In fact, they often shorten it themselves—with 168 letters, it’s the longest place name in the world. Ready? It is this: krungthepmahanakhonamonrattanakosinmahintharaayuthayamahadilok ...

"You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes / You passed me up so as not to break a promise / Scattered Polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar / In the long run, you said you knew ...

But now that he’s speaking as a president and not as a candidate, his words are being used against him in court in the blizzard of litigation challenging his agenda. The spontaneity is ...

There are occasions when we hear (quite often actually) that we in SA are ‘the worst in the world’ and this or that. There are 235 countries in the world, does that mean we come 235 th? or near the ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

The penalty for flouting the law is a $2,000 (around £767) fine, or a one-year imprisonment, or both. This is also a big no-no in parts of the Middle East. In Oman, for example, it could get you ...

The map below shows the advisories by country. Hover over a country to see what level advisory it has and search for a specific nation in the table.

She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around the world, multiple disease ... Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening ...