Economic news was incongruous this past week as three economists got Nobel prizes for their research on factors that ...

Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the World ...

Once touted as the envy of the world, the National Health Service is now “broken,” according to the government.

Deaths exceeded births in Taiwan for the 21st straight month, according to newly released government statistics, underscoring ...

At least 40,000 people have been killed, nearly 13 million displaced and many pushed to the brink of famine with over 24 ...

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without ...

The U.S. debt has reached $37 trillion. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio about the ramifications of the debt crisis.

PARIS — France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France’s political crisis that ...

Globally, six species have been moved into the “extinct” category, according to the latest Red List, including the Christmas ...

RAND Corporation's simulation has shed light on how a rogue AI could cripple U.S. infrastructure before humans could react.

And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares ...

Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson was fired on Tuesday after overseeing a woeful World Cup qualifying campaign in which he ...