Millions of people from the poor world are trying to cross seas, forests, valleys and rivers, in search of safety, work and ...

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches us anything, it is that the unexpected keeps happening, and responding to ...

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations ...

Google said it will follow the government’s lead. Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President ...

The Imago Mundi, the world's oldest map, has been re-examined by scientists who now claim it shows the exact location of Noah ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about one in eight people on Earth. The theme for World Wetlands Day is “Wetlands and human ...

Spencer Lane, 26, shared the haunting snap from inside the doomed jet as it prepared to take off. Sweden 's prime minister has voiced serious concerns about sweeping crime levels in the country as ...

State of the World was previously State of Ukraine. You'll continue to hear Ukraine coverage here, along with other international stories. Support NPR's reporting by subscribing to State of the ...

The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.