With the announcements by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Andorra on Monday, 156 countries officially recognize the State of Palestine.

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

It has been well over a year since Sir Keir Starmer walked into Downing Street pledging to "smash the gangs" organising small ...

The U.S. is among more than 30 countries that allow for unrestricted birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship means that a person born in a country, regardless of their parents' immigration ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

With summer vacation nearly upon us, people and families planning to travel out of the country soon are encouraged to check the U.S. Department of State Travel Advisories map to see travel advisory ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...