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The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China. By Lynsey Chutel A volcano that erupted in Ethiopia spewed an ash cloud that ...

Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Premieres Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app When a massive Chinese industrial park lands in rural Ethiopia, a dusty farming town finds itself at the new frontier of ...

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die stuck its hooks in me after just a few rooms. Dashing between enemy projectile attacks and then slicing those enemies up, I quickly got into a rhythm with the roguelike ...

The Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid supplies and essentially shutter USAID has had seismic effects on global humanitarian efforts. The U.N. World Food Program is one of the ...

The vice president denied that he was talking about Britain and France when he downplayed “20,000 troops from some random country” protecting Ukraine. No other countries have pledged troops. By Mark ...

Background: Understanding population dynamics is essential since the number of children ever born (CEB) affects the growth, composition, and structure of a nation's population. The number of CEB has ...