Back to school and cellphones: here’s how education might win

Schools are plotting a variety of strategies in order to fight back against the lure of screens

Aug 26, 2024 1:30 PM Read more >

Alaska landslide kills 1, injures 3 more in Ketchikan, authorities say

Falling rocks prompt evacuation in the Alaska city

Aug 26, 2024 10:30 AM Read more >

Ice cave collapse in Iceland kills 1 tourist and leaves 2 missing

A group of 25 tourists from several countries were exploring the cave when collapse occurred

Aug 26, 2024 10:30 AM Read more >

Taliban vice and virtue laws a ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, UN warns

Women must now conceal their faces, bodies and voices outside the home

Aug 25, 2024 11:30 AM Read more >

Israel and Hezbollah trade heavy fire before pulling back

Analysts say attacks unlikely to lead to an all-out regional war

Aug 25, 2024 10:30 AM Read more >

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at a Paris airport, French media report

French media say Durov accused of allowing his platform to be used for criminal activity

Aug 25, 2024 10:30 AM Read more >

Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test say they were treated as ‘expendable’

Weeks before the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan, it tested the new weapon in New Mexico

Aug 25, 2024 9:54 AM Read more >

NASA not using a Boeing capsule to bring astronauts back adds to company’s problems

Boeing has seen its reputation battered since two 737 Max airliners crashed in 2018 and 2019

Aug 24, 2024 12:57 PM Read more >

Islamic State group claims responsibility for fatal knife attack in Germany

The group said the attacker targeted Christians

Aug 24, 2024 12:35 PM Read more >

Roadside bomb kills 2 children, wounds 15 people in southwest Pakistan

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack that happened in Pishin

Aug 24, 2024 9:45 AM Read more >