Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

Thailand’s capital of culture mixes heritage with modernism, such a vibrant city also offers a wide array of hotels that will ...

an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin. Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. These include nearly all ...

NEW DELHI: The South-East Asia Region including India, reported the highest number of cancers of lips and oral cavity, uterine cervix, and childhood cancers among all World Health Organisation ...

whereas name changes are usually a long bureaucratic process — but it's not the first time Google Maps has changed place names and world borders for different users in different locations ...

The UK population is set to grow by five million people in 10 years, despite death rates being projected to overtake birth rates in that time. All of the forecast population growth is due to ...

Here are the 15 biggest cities in Africa, ranked by population. Population estimates have been referenced from official government census figures, or if unavailable, from the most recent U.N. data.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Google Maps will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on ...

Once constructed, the network helped transport ideas, religions, commodities and currencies across the ancient world. While the connection between Europe and East Asia was severed in 1453 when the ...

Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains has revealed an impeccably preserved forest, frozen in time for thousands of ... But it hasn't always been that way; an ancient forest lies beneath ...

Now there are 2.5 times as many Africans. It’s expected that by 2100, there will be five times as many Africans. By 2100, more than 80 percent of the world’s population is expected to be ...