A record-breaking heat wave is cresting across the United States, with about 100 million people under extreme heat alerts. Local TV news stations, governors and health officials advise to plan accordingly, drink water, go to cooling centers if neede...

Here is what the indefinite pause on New York City’s congestion pricing program, if it sticks, will cost: 120,000 more cars daily clogging Lower Manhattan’s bumper-to-bumper streets, according to a New York State analysis, and perhaps $20 billion an...

The world’s longest-living vertebrate is not the friendly giant tortoise, the breathtaking blue whale or the saltwater crocodile, which can terrorize the imagination of toddlers and centenarians alike. It’s the shuddersome, floppy Greenland shark, w...

It may not feel like it, but we’re likely experiencing the largest construction booms in history. According to one estimate63jili, the world will build the equivalent of a New York City every month from 2020 to 2060. Even this may not be enough to m...

Image An Israeli airstrike on the town of Khiam, Lebanon, yesterday.Credit...Carl Court/Getty ImagesIsrael expanded evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings for 20 more towns and villages in southern Leb...

Masamitsu Yoshioka, the last known survivor among some 770 crew members who manned the Japanese airborne armada that attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, has died. He was 106. His death was announced on social media on Aug. 28 by the Japanese jour...

A former government minister in Singapore was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday in a rare graft case that has transfixed the affluent city-state. The minister, S. Iswaran, who oversaw transportation, last week pleaded guilty to accepting g...

Iran’s oil infrastructure has been pushed to the center of the escalating conflict in the Middle East, but an Israeli strike on Iran’s energy facilities would also affect China directly. On Thursday, President Biden said the United States was “in di...

An investigation by China of an American clothing retailer has escalated concerns among foreign companies about their dependence on Chinese supply chains and the future of their operations in the country. China’s Ministry of Commerce said last week...

Sonamani Sardar (30 years) running a ration shop in her home in Tiring village of East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand | Photo: Md Asghar Khan/Outlook Sonamani Sardar (30 years) running a ration shop in her home in Tiring village of East Singhbhum d...