In a shocking twist of fate, many of the poorest countries in the world are fighting high levels of obesity and a lack of nourishment that leaves people too thin at the same time.
Doctors reveals a third of poor...
If you’re looking forward to enjoying a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings and other seasonal food delights over the holidays, then stop to think about how long you should exercise to get rid of any excess flab.
More than...
Despite a history of more than 40,000 years on the planet, science is still discovering new species.
Under the spotlight this year are a series of fascinating discoveries at London’s world famous Kew Gardens - which besides being a repository...
Healthcare spending is a big issue for voters around the world - but which countries spend the most?
The big surprise is the United States is the world’s biggest healthcare spender, according to the latest data for 2018 from think...
It’s fast becoming impossible for ordinary voters to know which politicians to believe.
The days of honest statesmen brokering deals behind closed doors in smoke filled rooms have long gone.
Instead voters are left with stage-managed set piece rallies, Twitter sound...
As 11,000 scientists from around the world unite to declare a global climate emergency, a terrifying warning from the past predicts sea levels could rise 11 feet within a century if the world fails act.
The research comes from scrutinising...
English is changing all the time as new words fall in and out of fashion, and the latest in vogue phrase is ‘climate strike’, according to language experts.
Lexicographers at the Collins Dictionary picked the term as word of the...
Wild fires raging in some corner of the world seem to be hot off the press and in the news a lot.
Huge fires have ravaged thousands of acres of California during the past few days, provoking a state of...
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up rather than be captured by US special forces as he was chased down by military dogs in a network of tunnels beneath his home.
The jihadist who once ruled millions of people...
America is turning out to be a fair weather friend for the abandoned Kurds in Northern Syria.
President Donald Trump argues the Kurds fought well as allies against the Kurds as a paid militia, but now ISIS has been defeated...
Google has turned up some surprises in the search engine’s annual list of global trending topics.
Split into nine categories and covering millions of searches,...