With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Have you ever wondered which part of the world is the happiest ... Scroll below to look at the maps and an explanation of their findings. One map shows the countries where people have the highest ...

Moreover, the report found that nine of the 13 female world leaders are their ... but since then, only 60 countries, 31 percent of U.N. member states, have ever had a woman leader.

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s ...

Of every 100 infections last reported around the world, more than 22 were reported from countries in Asia and the Middle East. The region is reporting a million new infections about every 6 days ...

The United States and Russia combine for 88 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world, with the stock of nukes globally ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders who did show up that the world is seeing “a master class ...

Here is a map of all the ... assessment for the entire world has been set to ‘moderate’, with cases of clade I being largely located in the DRC and neighbouring countries.

GDP per capita PPP is a helpful tool to pinpoint the poorest countries in the world. Smaller and less powerful countries in challenging regions are among the bottom ten economies. Liberia and Chad ...

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are dominated by the West, especially the United States. Some developing countries see the BRICS development bank as less demanding. It has given ...

Iceland has been named the safest country to travel in 2025 in a new report from Berkshire Hathaway. Pictured here: Godafoss waterfall. From war to terrorism to civil unrest, the world is facing ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...