The world is a big place. There is plenty to see on our planet: cities, mountains, and a lot of countries that can be tricky ...

Isolated confrontations have intensified over the past week into the sharpest escalation of violence between the two countries in years. By Zia ur-Rehman Yaqoob Akbary Safiullah Padshah and Elian ...

The president scolded other nations about immigration at the U.N.'s 80th General Assembly on Tuesday, including telling European leaders that immigrants were "destroying their heritage" Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump didn’t pull any punches in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. In a blunt address, Trump insulted other world leaders and diplomats on immigration ...

A map by Newsweek shows how over three-quarters of United Nations members recognize Palestine as a state, following announcements by the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia, and Canada. Other U.N.

THE GERMANS are an inventive bunch. They came up with the printing press, the car and the X-ray machine, not to mention MP3s and gummy bears. The country remains a big contributor to technological ...

A map by Newsweek highlights the countries that President Donald Trump's administration has declared as "having failed demonstrably" to fight drug trafficking over the last year, including Colombia ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...