South Koreans became a year or two younger as a new age-counting law took effect on June 28, the BBC reports. Previously, South Koreans were considered one year old at birth.

Fireworks aren’t the only thing soaring sky-high this Fourth of July, so are temperatures. With the heat index expected to be in the triple digits, it’s important to know that excessive heat can be extremely dangerous.

How a genocide survivor in Bosnia and his years-long search for human bones continues to inspire hope.

Canadian wildfires will send worsening smoky air across the country and neighboring United States in coming days after recent heavy rains failed to fall in areas of Quebec where the fires are most active, officials said Wednesday. FRANCE 24’s François …

101 East investigates controversial family planning measures designed to curb population growth.

CNN reports that people who aren’t Costco members are increasingly using other people’s cards at self-checkout. The company will now ask to see an ID along with a membership card at self-checkout registers.

Sturgeon arrives to give evidence at Covid Inquiry

The use of a firearm by a policeman who killed a French teen this week did not meet the legal conditions under which such force can be used, the local prosecutor said Thursday. Pascal Prache, state prosector in the area where the killing took place, al…

Environmentalist King Charles has turned the radiators down to 16C at Buckingham Palace in a bid to make savings to deal with soaring inflation.