As 2026 dawned, here’s how commemorations looked around the world: Fireworks over the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Fireworks ...

Hundreds of billions of dollars spent, a surge in mental health concerns and thousands of jobs lost. These are just a few of the ways AI rattled the world in 2025 and what comes next.

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...

A convicted murderer sentenced to life behind bars is suing his prison because they won’t let him eat Vegemite. Andre McKechnie, 54, said the Victoria jail deprives him of his right to “enjoy his ...

Hong Kongers offered flowers and bowed outside a funeral parlor on Friday to pay tribute to a firefighter who was among the 160 people killed by the city's deadliest fire in decades. An array of ...

The FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., divided a record 48 teams into 12 groups of four. Six spots won’t be determined until March, when 22 teams will face off in playoffs.

You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of ...