Pope Francis is more popular than any political world leader. This is what an opinion poll has suggested. The poll was carried out by WIN/Gallup International on Thursday. It found that 54 per cent of people around the world have a favourable opinion...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has released a list of 50 movies that they say all under-14-year-old children must see. More than 70 movie critics gave their top ten childrens movies from around the world. The result is a wide variety of famous Holl...
Aung San Suu Kyi is to be Myanmar's new foreignminister in the first civilian government the countryhas had in decades. Suu Kyi's National League forDemocracy (NLD) party won an absolute majority inthe general election in November 2015 under herleade...
Levis is going to make and sell a new pair of jeansthat have been designed to wear with the Apple iPod. The latest in the fashion-meets-technologyrevolution is a combination of two of the planetsmost recognized and fashionable icons. The linkingof hi...
The international coffee shop chain Starbucks willstart giving customers a discount if they bring theirown cups. The discount is part of a two-month trialin cafes in England. Starbucks said it wants to reducethe amount of waste and recycle more. The...
Short and dark days can cause a medical conditionknown as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Doctorsare increasingly telling their patients about thisproblem in countries that have depressing weather. One of the most famous places for gray skies that...
Italian scientists have found that the chemical in thebrain which makes us romantic disappears over ayear. They say this explains why the happy, wonderful and confident feelings we experience atthe start of a relationship do not last forever. Researc...
Google Kenya has said it would not remove a music video from its YouTube site. The Kenyan government asked Google to take the video offline because it showed gay couples, gay pride marchers, and images of openly gay Kenyan public figures. The video a...
Mapmakers are currently discussing the authenticity of a map that might prove a Chinese sailor, admiral Zhu Di, was the first person to discover America. Gavin Menzies, a British amateur historian, wrote a book called 1421 ?The Year China Discovered...
Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, has announced that his country will issue visas tocitizens of African Union member states from July. Anyone arriving at a port in Ghana bearing apassport from an African Union nation will be granted a visa, whi...
