The latest edition of the World Heritage Map is now available to order! This new design, poster-sized wall map features all 1,223 World Heritage properties, illustrated with stunning photographs from ...

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Few realize that South Korea bars foreign companies from exporting the mapping data necessary for digital map services. That ...

How many countries are there in the world? It sounds like a straightforward question, but the answer depends on who you ask and how you define a “country.” The most widely accepted source, the U.S, ...

Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...

In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she ...

Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

Discover why New York City is the most populous U.S. city, boasting over 8.3 million residents across its five boroughs.

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build ...

Trump has now extended the deadline for negotiations to Aug. 1 and tinkered with his threatened tariffs, leaving the global ...

I wrote this in January 2006. This is an excerpt. Iranian President Mahmoud “the-Holocaust-is-a-myth” Ahmadinejad does not deny his intentions.

World of the Book: Celebrating 20 Years will be exhibited until 17 May 2026, State Library Victoria, Dome Galleries, Level 4; ...