Nigeria’s campaign to vaccinate more people against yellow fever appears to be making headway. The government is partnering with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF to immunize more than 26 million people
Some restaurants in Washington are showing their support by giving out free food to federal employees who are facing uncertainty at the end of the year
In the past four years, Russia’s $1.7 trillion economy has been in the world’s top 20. But in 2018, it has been plagued with problems stemming from under-investment, broadening state ownership of enterprise and Western sanctions over the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
With the new advancement of Kurdish-led forces into Hajin, in eastern Syria, thousands have fled their homes in Islamic State-controlled pockets
Victorina Morales was employed by the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey as a housekeeper
In India’s northern Haryana state, a campaign that aims to empower women and give them equal status in a deeply patriarchal society is encouraging residents in scores of villages to display their daughters names outside their village homes
Thailand – known for its tough anti-drug trafficking efforts – made history this month as Southeast Asia’s first country to legalize medical marijuana
U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than one-third of the residents of Detroit, Michigan, live below the poverty line, and more than half of children younger than 18 don’t have enough to eat
In the Ugandan capital, one man is using the game of kings to help children of the slums. Robert Katende founded the Som Chess Academy in an effort to keep kids off the streets and teach them the thinking skills to help them get ahead in life
Female circumcision — a practice that opponents call female genital mutilation — has been a coming-of-age ritual among the Maasai tribe of Kenya for generations