In 2024, the number of babies born in South Korea increased for the first time in nine years. The change is welcome news for a country that is dealing with serious population problems.
An Australian warship has rescued a Lithuanian rower who ran into a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. The Royal Australian Navy said 44-year-old Aurimas Mockus had been trapped for three days in the Coral Sea.
Buck turned her life experience as a religious worker in China into stories and books about poor Chinese farmers. The American public liked her work, and she produced many bestsellers. Her success led to a Nobel Prize in 1938.
French scientists have set a new record of 22 minutes for maintaining hydrogen atoms in a state called plasma. The scientists say their work marks an important step towards a controlled fusion reaction that could one day produce large amounts of energy.
Since mid-January, the education ministry has been testing a program that teaches English in more than 600 nursery and primary school classes. It is part of a plan to better connect Senegal with the rest of the world.
The World Health Organization recently announced a new platform for providing cost-free cancer drugs to thousands of children. The platform is a project supported by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Mainly in the western state of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park was the first and remains one of the largest of America’s great parks. It is home to the largest collection of wild animals in the lower 48 states.
A nonprofit group says the number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly 30 years. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the World Wildlife fund counts the butterflies in the United States.
The government of Nepal has increased the cost of a permit to climb Mount Everest by about one-third. The country’s director of tourism said the price increase will help reduce pollution and increase safety on the world’s highest mountain.
A famous general who led American colonists in the Revolutionary war, Washington served two terms as president. He had to invent the job and thought of future presidents building on his work.
Cambodian officials are warning visitors to the Angkor Wat complex to stay away from monkeys. The animals have become aggressive and destructive. Officials blame the behavior on visitors who feed the animals aiming to get video for social media.
Gettysburg is home to a museum and National Military Park honoring the U.S. Civil War battle that took place there in 1863. It was the deadliest battle of a war in which Americans fought each other.
Norway is very close to meeting its goal of selling only zero-emission vehicles beginning this year. Almost 96 percent of new cars registered in Norway in January were electric. No other country has such a high rate of electric car ownership.
Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its H3 rocket. The satellite will improve Japan’s positioning systems. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, said the launch was fully successful.
New Zealand’s parliament has passed a law recognizing a mountain as a legal person. The indigenous Māori people consider the mountain an ancestor. The mountain’s interests will be overseen by a committee of eight people.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a treatment to reduce severe high blood pressure. The treatment targets some nerves in the kidneys using ultrasound. Doctors think the treatment might reduce nerve signals that can affect blood pressure.
A New York food bank was offered more than 18,100 kilograms of salmon. But there was a problem. The Food Bank of Central New York needed to find a way to remove about 13,000 fish from holding tanks and then process them into food. They did it with the help of the business and many volunteers.
The Dead Sea has been shrinking for many years. The current conflicts and tensions in the Middle East have made it difficult for different countries to cooperate on environmental issues.
Officials have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a medical research center in South Carolina. The last of the animals spent about two months living in the woods, even during a rare snowstorm.