Contemporary speakers and writers often eschew the term ‘Third World’ in favour of more precise and considerate expressions such as 'developing countries' and 'least-developed countries,' as ...

The University of Rhode Island initiative found 62 percent of the world’s 195 countries received failing grades for their ...

It is like a drop in a bucket, if not an ocean. After years of painstaking efforts, all that the COP at its 29th summit in ...

A nuclear war could trigger catastrophic food shortages, leading to the starvation of 6.7 billion people. However, certain ...

An escalation in nuclear threats from Russia has raised concerns that tensions with the West could trigger a catastrophic global war. Vladimir Putin this week said he had lowered the bar for ...

A new draft of a deal on money to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday afternoon at the United Nations climate ...

The rankings of the top 10 most powerful countries out of 195 in the world in 2024 are compiled by US News using the following methodology. The power sub-ranking from US News is based upon an ...

About 2.25 crore sheets of records at the National Archives of India (NAI) have been estimated to be “highly brittle” and ...

Torrential rains in Valencia, in eastern Spain, caused flooding that killed more than 200 people. The deluge started inland. It took the authorities hours to warn those downstream. By Emma ...

BAKU (Reuters) -The European Union, U.S. and other wealthy countries at the COP29 summit have agreed to raise their offer of climate funding to $300 billion per year by 2035 to help developing nations ...

Australia is vying with Turkey to host the annual climate summit, but a discordant meeting in Baku deferred the decision ...