Afghan girls learn, code 'underground' to bypass Taliban curbs

Cooped up at home in Herat, Afghanistan, Zainab Muhammadi reminisces about hanging out with her friends in the cafete...

Merck agrees to let other drug makers make its COVID pill

LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to allow other drug makers to produce its COVID-19 pill, in a move ...

Cambridge college, Paris museum return looted African artefacts

A Cambridge University college and a Paris museum on Wednesday handed back cultural artefacts looted from West Africa...

Clover Hill students perform more than 5,000 ‘Acts of Kindness’

The entire school came together for a program based on kindness called “Raise Craze.”

2 million Brits get a raise as minimum wage jumps to $13 an hour

Up to 2 million UK workers will be getting bigger paychecks starting in April following a hike to the minimum wage.

Dutch pension fund to divest from fossil fuel producers

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands' biggest pension fund announced Tuesday that it will stop investing in ...

COVID Pandemic May Have Driven a Flu Strain Into Extinction

One of the four flu strains -- B/Yamagata -- included in annual flu shots appears to have fallen off the radar.

Sikh men created a lifeline using turbans and jackets to rescue hiker...

A group of Sikh men broke religious protocol to help hikers stuck near raging waters at a Canadian park. The men crea...

"Free drinks for two" machine aims to spur workplace exchanges

A Japanese beverage maker has taken the wraps off a workplace vending machine it hopes will help restore interactions...

Bittersweet photo of father and son who lost their limbs due to Syria...

Mustafa was born without lower or upper limbs after his mother was poisoned in a nerve gas attack when she was pregnant.

How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America

A member of a scientific coalition advising Puerto Rico's government on the coronavirus pandemic recently joked about...