Email is one of the most important ways through which we communicate. It has become part of most everyone's day-to-day life. Writing a good email can mean the difference between someone reading it and writing back, and someone ignoring it all togethe...
The year was 1931. The top selling book in the United States was The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. The following year, Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for the best novel by an American writer. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to be awarded th...
French scientists have announced they set a new record of 22 minutes for keeping hydrogen atoms in a state called plasma. The team said their work marks an important step in the search for nuclear fusion methods that could produce massive amounts of...
In Senegal, educators are starting to teach English to younger children in an effort to better prepare them to succeed in future educational and professional activities. The preschool students also learn French - the country's official language - as...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new service, or platform, to provide free cancer medicines to thousands of children in less wealthy nations. The WHO defines these as low- and middle-income countries. The first medicines were to be...
An American 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, based in Oregon, said the...
The government of Nepal has increased the cost of a permit to climb Mount Everest by about one-third. Officials say the price increase aims to help reduce pollution and increase safety on the world's highest mountain. The director of Nepal's tourism...
Cambodian officials are warning visitors to the nation's famous Angkor Wat complex of buildings to stay away from wild monkeys. They say the animals have become aggressive and destructive. The officials blamed the behavior of the macaque monkeys on v...
The Gettysburg National Military Park is in the small town of Gettysburg in the eastern state of Pennsylvania. Much of the area around Gettysburg still looks like it did in the 1860s, during the American Civil War. The town is in the middle of good f...
Norway is very close to meeting its goal of selling only fully electric new vehicles starting this year. The Norwegian Road Federation (OFV), an automotive industry group, estimates that nearly 96 percent of new cars registered in Norway in January w...
Japan's space agency says it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new H3 rocket. The latest launch on February 2 took place as the country aims to develop a more precise positioning system. The H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki 6 satell...
New Zealand's parliament recently passed a law that gives a mountain all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The indigenous Māori people of New Zealand consider the mountain their ancestor. The mountain is now known by its Māori name,...
A New York food bank was offered a large donation of fresh fish last month - but the gift came with a complication. LocalCoho, a New York salmon farm that was closing, wanted to give 18,100 kilograms of coho salmon to the Food Bank of Central New Yor...
US Approves Treatment for Severe High Blood Pressure Michael Garrity had dangerously high blood pressure for many years. And the medicines that doctors gave him could not control it. But a new treatment targeting some nerves on his kidneys has helped...
US Company Gives Over 18,000 Kilograms of Salmon to Food Bank A New York food bank was offered a large donation of fresh fish last month but the gift came with a complication. LocalCoho, a New York salmon farm that was closing, wanted to give 18,100...
