Food banks and hunger relief organizations are seeing an increase in the number of people lining up for food packages and calling helplines since Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were halted on Nov. 1. Nearly 42 million Amer...
Cruises are making waves this year as new megaships set sail and demand reaches record highs, triggering some popular destinations to update tourist tax rules. Here is what to know. Star of the Seas, the sister ship to the cruise liner's Icon ...
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NEW DELHI --Hundreds of doctors protested near India's health ministry Monday as they demanded stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and sought justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital....
An Israeli hostage freed from Gaza three months ago has accused the world of forgetting those still held by Hamas and urged the Israeli government to do whatever it takes to bring them home. Itay Regev, 19, told the BBC he was held in &qu...
Discover the phenomenon known as asymmetrical sleep, where parts of an animal's brain are asleep while other areas remain active. -- Many animals need sleep. But all of the threats and demands animals face don’t just go away when it’s t...
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Egyptian antiquities officials say they have confirmed the existence of a hidden internal corridor above the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Video from an endoscope showed the inside of the corridor, which is 9m (30ft) long an...
Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km, this chart for the first time details a new deepest point...
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There's a new robot on the surface of Mars. The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet's equator called Jezero. "The good news is the spacecraft, I thin...
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China's Great Wall: How technology is helping to restore it. The Jiankou section of the wall ribbons over top mountains for 20km (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri) Built in the 1500s and early 1600s, the Jiankou section was left u...
A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week, as people react to the spread of the coronavirus. Italian violinist Fiamma Flavia Paolucci performs at Tor Vergata Hospital in Rome, as part of International Nu...
The son of California's new governor Gavin Newsom stole the show during his inauguration speech in Sacramento....
The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history. That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May. Demand for oil has all but dried ...
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