Nigeria's 'Waste Museum' Shows Waste Can Turn to Wealth Jumoke Olowookere's latest works are made from used vehicle tires painted in red, yellow and green. The creations join a collection of used plastic, cloth, wine corks, corn husks and other mater...
Cherokee on a Smartphone: Part of a Drive to Save a Language The Cherokee are a large Native American tribe. Many live in Cherokee Nation, a huge reservation in the state of Oklahoma. Others live farther east, in places like North Carolina and Delawa...
New research shows that the cost of raising a child in China is nearly seven times its GDP per capita, far more than in the United States and Japan. 新的研究表明,中国育儿成本几乎是其人均国内生产总值的7倍,远高于美国和...
102-year-old Man Breaks Thais 100-meter Record It takes Thai athlete Sawang Janpram 27.08 seconds to run 100 meters. That's not bad, given he is 102 years old. People know Sawang as the oldest sprinter in Thailand. He has run four times in the yearly...
Europes Joint Mars Mission with Russia Delayed by War The European Space Agency says the launch of a joint Europe-Russia mission to Mars this year is now very unlikely because of sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine. The European Union and many oth...
Catherine Russell is the newly appointed chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). 凯瑟琳拉塞尔是联合国儿童基金会的新一任执行主任。 She said on February 25 that the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are showing a comm...
Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met on Monday near the Ukraine-Belarus border. The meeting came as Ukrainian forces have slowed Russian advances while defending their capital and other cities. The meeting also came a day after Russia put its nucl...
A Battle for Women's Rights in Kuwait Kuwaiti officials recently canceled a yoga trip for women advertised by a teacher of the exercise form. Lawmakers and Muslim leaders were upset over the danger of women doing yoga exercises. The incident this mon...
Dry Conditions, Poisons Killing Chiles Bees The South American nation of Chile has been experiencing a severe drought for the last 13 years. This extreme lack of water has led to fewer flowers and, as a result, fewer honeybees. Poisonous chemicals us...
Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State (IS) and home to about 300,000 people, is now free. 拥有30万人口的伊斯兰国前首都拉卡市现在已经得到解放。 Yet many of its people want to leave. Those with property are trying to s...