Instability from Latin America to the Middle East risks spreading as conflicts, proxies, and shifting alliances shape 2026.

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

What we choose to eat can affect climate change, and that means all the factors involved in feeding our growing population—from agriculture to fair trade to food waste to the labor force—can have an ...

World maps distort — it's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper), and some parts of the sphere are going to get stretched. On ...

NBC News is tracking Covid-19, which has killed more than 6 million people worldwide. The daily worldwide death toll is down from its late 2020 peak. Track the latest numbers on how many people have ...

Mexico is poised to elect its first female president on Sunday, joining dozens of other countries that have been led by a woman at some point in their history, although there are still a number of ...

Safety for women traveling abroad has improved in recent years at a gradual rate, according to the findings of a Washington, D.C., institute. Newsweek spoke to Elena Ortiz, research manager at the ...

It's still illegal to be LGBT+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12, as the world marks 30 years since “homosexuality” was declassified as a disease. International Day ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...