By AFPPhilippine President Ferdinand Marcos denounced on Monday a proposed law to make sex education mandatory in schools in the conservative mainly Catholic nation, alleging it would teach four-year-olds to pleasure themselves.Marcos vowed to veto t...

By AFP/Mary Yang with Emily WangAt a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone.Zhang, 19, has long battled anxiety over school and...

By AFP/Rossen BOSSEVLazar was overcome by a "deep sense of fear": his wife had just found out that he had racked up thousands of euros worth of debt after his attempts to control his gambling addiction had failed.Despite voluntarily signing up to a r...

By AFP/Gregory WALTON and Diane DESOBEAUUS President Donald Trump repealed numerous executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality and issued new ones decreeing only two genders and ending government diversity programs Monday, definitively breaking with w...

By AFP/Daniel SILVAGlobal tourism fully recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2024 with 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals recorded worldwide due to "robust" demand from key markets, UN Tourism said Monday."A majority of destinations welcom...

By AFP/Herika Martinez with Zina DesmazesMargelis Tinoco broke down in tears after her asylum appointment was canceled as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown announced by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office."I don't know what wi...

By UN News/Eileen TraversWhen Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visited UN Headquarters in the 1960s to protest the Viet Nam conflict, the civil rights leader likened the anti-war movement to the struggle for equality for B...

By AFP/Clement KASSERGermany's far-right AfD party has aimed fire at the Bauhaus movement, just as the hallowed school of architecture and design nears its centenary milestone.The Bauhaus movement of the 1920s, with its pioneering ethos of uniting fo...

By AFP/Yussel GonzalezAna Maria had to pay to enter Mexico illegally -- or risk being kidnapped by ruthless criminals who have turned the migration crisis into a multibillion-dollar business.As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office...

By AFP/Clément VARANGESThe derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stil...

By AFP/Jing Xuan TENGBuilt in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.The hospital now stands empty, hi...

By AFPKeen to improve India's abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, organisers of the world's largest human gathering are using artificial intelligence to try to prevent stampedes.Organisers predict up to 400 million pilgri...