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Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year’s record by 25 percent, the UN drugs…

More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real…

No country is on track to achieve the gender equality called for in the United Nations’s development blueprint, a report…

The UN headquarters in New York, the pyramids of Egypt and Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue were among top world…

Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday to march through the streets for an…

Some 385,000 people worldwide died prematurely in 2015 from air pollution caused by vehicle exhaust emissions, a US study found…

After years of struggling alone or finding support in national groups, survivors of sex abuse by priests have formed a…

  Australia’s largest city Sydney will put on its biggest-ever fireworks display to welcome the New Year and kick off…

  From ankle-deep mud in Central Asia to the scorching heat of Australia, Mina Guli is running 100 marathons in…

Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said Wednesday, signaling…