Report: Wealth Held by Billionaires Jumped in 2024 The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Billionaire Ambitions Report for 2024 said the total number of billionaires worldwide had risen to 2,682 from 2,544 a year earlier. Their worth increased to $14 tr...
California Proposes Plan to Protect Its Famous Joshua Trees The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a proposed plan to protect the state's famous Joshua trees. Environmentalists say the trees are threatened by wildfires, human dev...
People on Island Near Singapore Face Uncertain Future A short boat ride from the wealthy city-state of Singapore is something rare - a small, quiet island. People living on Pulau Ubin still talk about the arrival of solar power 11 years ago. They cal...
What to Know about South Korea's Short Period of Martial Law South Korea's parliament moved to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and sent troops into the streets on Tuesday night. For several hours, armed forces with helic...
South Korean Man Guilty of Gaining Weight to Avoid Military Service A South Korean court has found a man guilty of purposefully gaining weight to avoid completing required service in the country's military. Seoul's Eastern District Court sentenced th...
Rohingya Men Leaving Refugee Camps to Fight in Myanmar The Rohingya are an ethnic group from Myanmar. They have been displaced from that country and many now live in some of the world's largest refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. Recently, Reute...
Mysterious Creature from Argentina Has Made Its Home in Dubai Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is known for its tall, modern buildings rising high above the desert. But an unusual animal from Argentina, the Patagonian mara, can be found there, too....
Mysterious Shoe Thief Identified Police suspected someone was stealing shoes from a children's school in southwestern Japan. But a security camera caught the thief in action. It was a weasel! The small animal with a long body and short legs usually h...
Would You Pay $344 for a Coffee? A Scottish dairy, or milk cow farm, is offering what it calls Britain's costliest coffee: one cup for $344. It is a huge price for a little cup of coffee, but the man selling it offers a deal sweetener: a share of a d...
People will no longer have to fight with monkeys in the historic Thai city of Lopburi. That is because of new efforts to keep the animals from reproducing and to limit their movements. Monkey City Before public health measures to control COVID-19 clo...
Martin Edwards studies the shadows of the ancient forest from a high seat and waits. Sitting still, he watches with his special camera. Then, Edwards aims and fires his rifle. He has killed a male deer, or buck. It was one of many wild deer found in...
As the price of fuel increased greatly in Ethiopia earlier this year, Awgachew Seleshi decided to buy an electric vehicle, or EV. The decision follows government efforts to slowly remove gas-powered vehicles from the roads. Months later, Seleshi is n...
In a large plant in the heart of California's farmland, millions of pistachios are inspected, prepared and shipped off around the world. Pistachios, a kind of nut, have been around for over 3,000 years. First planted in central Asia, pistachios arriv...
Several large lakes once surrounded Mexico City. Those lakes have disappeared over the years. But what is left of one of them is still important to local people who grow food. Cassandra Gardu?o works in her family's chinampa. In Mexico, a chinampa is...
A national symbol of Japan, the respected Mount Fuji usually has a cap of snow by early October. This year, weather experts said snowfall on the top of the mountain took place later than it has since records have been kept. Last year, snow covered th...
