For first time since World War II, US national debt now larger than its economy

Beijing Auto Show: more EV models in each of 17 halls than in the US

The Watch Expert Catching Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeits

New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic's A.I. Ethics Code

Business group urges BC govt to reject 'unreasonable' remote work request

US Supreme Court Rejects Colorado Ban on 'Conversion Therapy' for LGBTQ Minors

California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes

Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions

'The cover-up is brazen': one journalist's fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

The nostalgic winter drink dividing Germany

'Psychological torture': Spanish tenants fight back against housing 'harassment'

South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

Italy's Secretive Food Confraternities

Bro, Enough with the Protein. You're Just Making Expensive Pee

Hotels Are Getting Rid of Proper Bathroom Doors and Guests Are Revolting

Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"

Google moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting 'extortion'

Why Switzerland has no head of state

Voting for Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up City Doesn't Mean I Approve of It

Luxury goods once built to last now fall apart as easily as fast fashion

Caviar and foie gras? China is becoming a luxury food powerhouse

The US govt has revoked the non-immigrant visa of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka [video]

Adventure can be disastrous: digital nomad families 'worldschooling' their kids

Japanese Game co. asks applicants to draw in person to avoid generative AI fraud

They built a mobile observatory to film nebulae 7,500 Light-Years Away [video]

Lithuania More Than Halved Its Suicide Rate

Merriam-Webster banks on "actual intelligence" over artificial intelligence

Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification

Hogeweyk: Amsterdam's Revolutionary Dementia Village

I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning

The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels

Laurene Powell Jobs:Beware Philanthropists Who Want Control in Return for Giving

Texas bans people/entities from China, Iran, Russia, Korea from buying property

Culinary epitaphs: Recipe on Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official info

Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical

How Thomas Peterffy automated trading, made Interactive Brokers a $100B business

13-year-old boy survives 90 minute flight stowed away in airplane's landing gear

Move into Maui tiny home village, two years after fires

Startup Founder Charlie Javice Sentenced to over 7 Years for Defrauding JPMorgan

The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber

ChatPerson, our new RI (real intelligence) service

China is ditching the dollar, fast: Officials believe the yuan has come of age

Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections

African authorities dismantle cybercrime and fraud networks, recover ~100M

Protests as Greenlandic woman's newborn taken after 'parenting competence' tests

Think Doing Business in India Is Hard? Try Getting a Drink After Work

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks Africa's size

Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires

The Perfect Algorithm for Finding Love? Trevor Noah Interviews Christian Rudder [video]

Rise of ARFID, childhood disorder that shuts off the basic human instinct to eat

A chemist/computer scientist brought self-driving laboratories to Toronto

Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True

The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire

First US college declines federal science grants due to new DEI requirements

Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'

How a Hazelnut Spread Became a Sticking Point in Franco-Algerian Relations

Busting the Myth That the Canadian Federal Govt Has Hurt Alberta's Oil Industry

I Bought a Tesla and the Previous Owner Has Been Remotely Controlling My Car

Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types

'The Internet Sucks.' Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It

A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition

How A Canadian Ostrich Farm Sparked a Far-Right Crusade

'Garage Mahals' Are Driving Neighbors Nuts

How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen: China's $100B livestream sales sector

The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model

Why weight-loss drug users are telling no one – not even their partners

How Far Would You Go to Make a Friend? Startups Selling Treatment for Loneliness

Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay

Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace

Vietnam's Village of Moroccan Defectors

The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe's Power Back On

Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem

Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path

Cocoa prices are rising so new chocolate firms are using alternative ingredients