International

KOLKATA, India — Major crop damage due to climatic conditions has forced the the world’s largest rice producer — China — to import rice from India for the first time in decades. “This year China […]

Long, winding lines in front of banks are a daily occurrence in Zimbabwe due to rampant cash shortages in the southern African nation. Since the coronavirus hit the country in March, COVID-19 restrictions have forced […]

CEBU CITY, Philippines  —  A 7-year-old girl was overwhelmed after an online food app error resulted in her mistakenly ordering 42 chicken-fillet meals. The food was delivered by 30 separate couriers — all demanding payment. […]

GUARATINGUETA, Brazil — A Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant was actually wearing a hollowed-out half watermelon containing several blocks of cocaine. The unnamed 38-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking in the […]

Rethink fashion: That was the mandate given to Israeli fashion designer Ganit Goldstein and nine other artists who each got €55,000 from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 “Re-FREAM” program to work with scientists on revolutionizing […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Despite uncertainties over Joe Biden’s approach to trade with China, major U.S. companies are optimistic about the business outlook under the new administration. The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai found that […]

Mumbai — Ten million health care workers in India will be the first to get the Covid-19 vaccine whenever it becomes available. As in other countries, the first vaccine doses will be given to frontline […]

Soraya Jiménez Mendívil made history at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when she won a gold medal for her 490.5 pound lift. It was the first year female weightlifting was included as an Olympic sport. […]

Some call it a plague. Yoav Motro calls it a war. The enemies are huge armies of desert locusts destroying farm and grazing lands across nine East African countries. In Ethiopia alone, the locusts have […]