In sub-Saharan Africa, a child under five dies nearly every minute from malaria. But new research suggests baby wraps treated with insect repellant can protect them.
Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage.
About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.
Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.
It’s been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some numbers showing the war’s toll.
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned about the number of civilians fleeing violence in northern Mozambique, with many driven to the point of no return.
Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said.