The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup is now fewer than 80 days away, and the six remaining qualification slots will be filled during the international break when the final four European nations and two ...

The threat of World War Three is looming large in the public consciousness. Last week, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea ...

Americans generally see their country as respected and powerful on the world stage, but they think the United States’ global influence is waning. How important is it that the U.S. is respected ...

As Syrian rebels approached Damascus last weekend, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s main Arab ally, as a minor episode in a planet-wide struggle.

The U.S. is increasingly pulling ahead of the world’s advanced economies, with a surge of investment paying off in higher productivity and wages. The International Monetary Fund highlights those ...

Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto project that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.” The ...

A floating apartment. A residential yacht. A holiday home that travels the globe. The World, a luxury liner, has many descriptions, but "cruise ship" is not one of them, said resident Jim Minarik.

The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy and said the “impressive” U.S. economy is powering the world. The latest outlook estimates the global economy will expand 2.6 percent, an ...

In sweltering Brazil, flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in India, amid national elections, are fainting in heat that hit as high ...

In a world that has grown more dangerous in recent years, the nightmare scenario of a Third World War is in the public consciousness. Earlier this year, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the ...

The full match schedule for the FIFA World Cup 2026™, which will be the biggest edition yet, was released on 4 February. The forthcoming 23rd World Cup promises to be laden with suspense, ...

As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters ...