Culture

At Indian startup Pronto's training hub, women hone their chopping and mopping skills while learning how to send SOS signals if they feel unsafe inside customers' homes. They are set to join India's newest consumer craze: house help for $1...

An international conference to raise funding commitments for Sudan has produced pledges of more than 1.5 billion euros  ($1.77 billion) in humanitarian aid, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday. The brutal three-year war between the Sudanese army and...

At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut. Each time she walked into St. Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo of Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into...

For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale National Park in Uganda spend their days eating fruits and leaves, resting, traveling and grooming in their tropical rainforest abode. But this stable community then fractured and...

As Italians live longer and traditional family care weakens, growing numbers of sprightly seniors are tempted by new residential developments - known as "silver housing" - that promise independence with community life and services. These residences, common in the United...

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a lunar surface under...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday it was terminating resolution agreements backing transgender students that prior administrations had reached with some school districts. The U.S. Education Department said it was terminating six resolution agreements reached through what it...

Since Australia banned children from using social media in December, lawmakers from Spain to Malaysia have expressed interest in following suit, while U.S. courts have found tech firms negligent toward young users. This global spotlight on the first such ban...

With a loud thwack of their wings, the falcons took flight, quickly soaring high above the rocky desert landscape of Altyn-Emel National Park in southeastern Kazakhstan. The 34 birds were on an important mission: to help restore Kazakhstan's population of...

Since Australia banned children from using social media in December, lawmakers from Spain to Malaysia have expressed interest in following suit, while U.S. courts have found tech firms negligent toward young users. This global spotlight on the first such ban...