The Taliban has taken control of dozens of districts and cities since the U.S.-led international withdrawal on May 1, including 9 provincial capitals in the last few day
00:39 Meet the Delta robot, a homemade bot bringing food, and hopefully a smile, to self-isolating COVID-19 patients. With the head made from a rice cooker, it is operated by remote con
02:55 The infrastructure plan proposed by the Biden administration can be described as a bumpy road. Elliott David Sclar, chairman of the Earth Institute at Columbia University said tha
01:50 One of South America's longest rivers is at its lowest level in living memory.The Paraná Riverruns through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.Prolonged droughtin southern Brazil is o
04:20 On Jul 29, online stock trading platform Robinhood, which played a major part in the GameStop stock frenzy at the beginning of 2021, went public on Wall Street, with an initial pu
The ninth edition of the top 10 readers awards ceremony took place on July 15 at the 30th National Book Expo in Jinan, East China's Shandong province.Hosted by the National Press and Publication A
02:32 Canada has reopened its border to non-essential travel from the United States for the first time since the start of the pandemic.Visitors who are fully vaccinated and have a negat
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that the U.S. should give up the pressure policy pursued by its former President Donald Trump.Saeed Khatibzadeh said at his weekly press conference t
03:36 Since mid-June this year, temperatures in the western United States have soared and drought intensified, posing a fatal threat to crop production in the region.Recently, following
02:01 U.S lawmakers were this Monday trying to complete legislation that puts green energy at the heart of a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure upgrade.They've spent months negotiating th
01:35 The Delta variant is delaying plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions in Venezuela. Businesses will continue operating one week on, one week off.Public health experts are worried abou
01:54 Mexico is suing gunmakers in the United States for the bloodshed that has occurred in their country.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court in Massachusetts against 11 U.S. fi
00:44 The Pan American Health Organization is asking for urgent vaccine donations to Latin America and the Caribbean, as coronavirus cases increase including the cases with the delta va
03:09 The opioid epidemic continues to ravage America, and it appears to have only gotten worse during the pandemic.A record number of people died last year of drug overdoses.A new $26
03:07 The Black Hat conference in Las Vegas has brought together some of the world’s foremost experts on hacking.With more people working remotely, morebusinesses integratingtheir servi
07:19 Go to any Chinese restaurant in the United States, and you’re likely to find an appetizer calledCrabRangoon.It’s a rather misleading name as it neither has roots in the former cap
01:43 Salima Mazari, a female district governor in male-dominated Afghanistan, is on a mission - recruiting men to fight the Taliban. Half of her district is already under Taliban contr