She holds no known official title in North Korea. The outside world has never heard her voice. The North’s state media has not even named her, referring to her only as the “most beloved,” “respected” or “dear” daughter of…
Continue Reading

She holds no known official title in North Korea. The outside world has never heard her voice. The North’s state media has not even named her, referring to her only as the “most beloved,” “respected” or “dear” daughter of…

The enthralling 2-2 draw for the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy between England and India provided a dramatic start to the new World Test Championship cycle.
It was an epic contest, each of the five Tests going into the final day, four in fact into the…

Israel’s plan to “take control” of Gaza City as approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet touched off a wave of criticism Friday from both inside and outside the country.
Nations around the world condemned the…

The ban, originally proposed by far-right Vox party, affects Muslims celebrating religious holidays in sports centres in Jumilla.
A ban imposed by a southeastern Spanish town on religious gatherings in public sports centres, which will mainly…

BBC News in Seoul
Getty ImagesHee-kyung giggles as she steps into Seoul’s new…

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
BBC climate and science reporter Esme Stallard explains why 80 years on, the radiation from the explosions is undetectable.
World War Two in…

The New York Times issued a strong statement Thursday in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told Fox News during a sit-down interview this week that the paper should be sued over its reporting on Israel’s ongoing assault…

Age verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before allowing them to access broad categories of “

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed a historic peace deal on Friday at the White House in front of US President Donald Trump.
The deal, if it holds, would end almost four decades of tensions and…