New data from a global satellite survey suggests that every second in 2017, there was loss of forest of the size of more than one football pitch throughout the world. The loss for the entire year was of the same size of that of the whole of Italy.   Felling of trees at this huge rate -...

The last ban in the world on female drivers came to an end after Saudi women took to the wheels of cars in the country at midnight on Sunday. This brought an end to a tradition that was seen as a means of women's repression in a society that is conservatively Muslim.   "It feels weird, I am...

According to analysts, China would be closely watching the scheduled meeting between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore with an ultimate aim of seeing U.S. forces out of the Korean peninsula.   "Beijing will be advocating that the price for...

Even after willing away the proposed summit level talks between him and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, U.S. President Donald Trump has against said that dialogue with North Korea has been restarted. Trump even suggested that a summit meeting may even happen at the earlier set date and...

The new study on climate change and its impacts that was released by the University of Exeter early this week, has warned that there are chances of more extremes of weather in the near future because of climate change globally which could lead to potential risks of food shortages in many countries....

Everyone who are looking to get a visa into the United States would now potentially hand over their social media details to the U.S. administration, according to a plan announced by the Trump administration.    All of the details of their Facebook and Twitter accounts would have to be...

A day after 60 U.S. diplomats were asked to get out of Russia, the country asked the U.K. to reduce its diplomatic mission in the country to as low as possible. This measure – which was expected, has further heightened tensions with the West.   Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

Many economic actors are in favor of an ongoing trend: the slow demise of cash, gradually phasing out of our economies, leaving its historical place to more modern, convenient and virtual methods. Among these supporters, government agencies are looking forward to moving on to the cashless era of...

Predominating models that are favored by ecologists is proving inadequate to predict the trends of alteration of North American winter bird communities due to climate change.   Established and researched trends in animals in varying climate zones helps ecologists predict that with warming...

World Bank said that there was a broad based economic recovery underway in the world economy and predicts a global economic growth rate of 3.1 per cent for the year 2018 which is an increased prediction compared to what was made by it the last time in June past year when it predicted 2018 global...

After central government forces loyal to Baghdad swept through the Kurdish led territory at the start of the week, an urge was sent to officials of BP by Iraqi officials to help the besieged country ravaged by a war and by years of ethnic violence develop oilfields in the disputed city of...