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GANGTOK, India — Sikkim, nestled in the Himalayas and surrounded on three sides by Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, stands out in the teeming diversity of India’s states. It has the country’s tallest...

Super Typhoon Mawar was moving west over the Pacific Ocean toward the Philippines on Saturday, days after the tropical cyclone brought damaging winds and rain to Guam. As of Saturday morning,...

Does it seem like that long walk back to economy class goes past more and more rows of cushy premium seats? You may be right. Driven by a rise in leisure travelers willing to pay more for a wider...

LONDON — For years, Britain’s governing Conservative Party has pledged to restrict immigration, and a vow to “take back control” of borders and migration was a centerpiece of the Brexit...

ZIBO, China — The flame-shaped neon archway was visible from miles away, which was good since there was little other reason for anyone to be in that part of town, an expanse of fields outside an...

Manila - The Manila Central Post Office, one of the Philippine capital’s most historic buildings, was all but destroyed by fire overnight, officials said Monday morning. The shell of the...

When a devastating earthquake struck in February, Syrian President Bashar Assad spotted an opportunity in disaster. He called for an end to international sanctions on his country and within days, some...

David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he looked. Over the past...

Last summer, Joe Loree made an appointment to see his urologist. He’d occasionally noticed blood in his urine and wanted to have that checked out. His doctor ordered a prostate-specific antigen, or...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Before he aspired to Kathmandu’s highest office, Balendra Shah appeared on the city’s rooftops, a singer facing off in rap battles or filming music videos. His songs, which...

KAYSERI, Türkiye — Memis Akbulut, a cellphone salesperson, listed the reasons that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could count on his support in elections Sunday that could drastically change the...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Monday that it would seek to require airlines to compensate passengers for lengthy flight delays and cancellations that are within their control. ...

Q: I eat spicy food almost every day. I love the taste and the tingle, but I wonder: How is all that heat affecting my body? Eating spicy food can produce a variety of physiological reactions, like...

In the first days of Sudan’s war, the two university students felt helpless. They locked themselves in their apartment in the capital, Khartoum, glued to Twitter as the battle unfolded. They...

Back-to-back shootings in Serbia this week, one in a school, have stunned the population and brought global attention to gun control in a country with one of the world’s highest rates of gun...

Before becoming president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. warned that “if you let the US come in, you make China your enemy.” But as he sat at the White House on Monday, President Joe...

With the battle for control of Sudan entering its third week, healthcare services are rapidly unraveling in the nation’s capital, Khartoum, a grim consequence of the brutal fighting that has...

ROME — If Italy’s tourism ministry hoped to make waves with a new marketing campaign promoting the country’s many wonders, it certainly hit the mark, though not, perhaps, in the way the...

ZIROBWE, Uganda — First the bad news. The two types of coffee that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change. Now the good news. Farmers in one...

Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that...