A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

Indian wrestlers faced tough competition at the World Championships in Zagreb, with most male athletes failing to reach the bronze medal matches. Aman Sehrawat's exit due to being overweight added to ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...

The Christmas Truce of 1914 comes alive in Google Earth along the flat fields of northern France and Belgium, where opposing trenches lay only a few hundred meters apart. Around Ypres and Armentières, ...

When the World Beer Awards 2025 published its results this August, two lines under the India Country Winners – Taste category did both: Simba Wit registered Silver (Wheat Beer: Belgian Style Witbier) ...

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 ...

The most commonly used maps don’t show the true scale of Africa (Picture: Getty) The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...