United Nations, Sep 13 (PTI) Around 50 million people globally were living in "modern slavery" in 2021, according to a report by the UN, which said that the COVID-19 pandemic...

NASA aims to launch Artemis I, the first leg of the Artemis Moon Mission, on September 27, 2022. The 70-minute launch window on the planned date will open at 11:37...

In the spring of 1975, Penny Wolin, a 21-year-old art student from Cheyenne, Wyo., moved into the storied St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood. The formerly upscale establishment, built in the...

Betsy Johnson is firmly behind the wheel, driving through an urban dystopia of poverty and despair.“God knows, we need a real solution to the homeless crisis,” she says brusquely. Tent...

Earlier this year, a homeless encampment along a Venice Boulevard median mushroomed to 60 tents — bringing thefts, fires, fistfights, drug use and a pronounced division in the heart of...

As the temperature edged past 110 one afternoon last week, the air inside L’aMaira Tyson’s sagging nylon tent felt like a blast from an open oven. “It’s hot out here,”...

WASHINGTON —  Anyone who has ever been on a job hunt knows that it is often difficult to find out what a new position might pay.That could be about to change....

In the first such case in Australia since 1936, a wild kangaroo allegedly killed a man who appeared to have kept the animal as a pet. The 77-year-old man lived...

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a guiding...

TAIPEI, Taiwan —  With 80% of its electricity coming from hydropower, the province of Sichuan in southern China has been lauded as a model for a clean energy future in the...