Walmart and TalkShopLive Put K-Beauty Front and Center in Their Latest Livestream — Here Are the Skin Care Bestsellers We’re Shopping

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Once considered niche and a rarity on the U.S. market, K-beauty is now one of the hottest beauty categories of...

Africa’s Ageless Presidents And The Stunting Of Democracy

-Analysis- PARIS — Paul Biya, 92, has been reelected in Cameroon for an eighth seven-year term, in a nation where half the population is younger than 18. Alassane Ouattara, 83, was reelected in Côte d’Ivoire for a fourth five-year term, in a...

Africa Records 54% Drop In Type 2 Poliovirus Cases, 200 Million Children Vaccinated In 2025

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the number of African countries with active type 2 poliovirus outbreaks between 2024 and 2025 has declined from 24 to 14, with the total virus detections dropping by 54 percent as of October this year. In a...

Good Housekeeping's 2026 Kitchen Awards

Home cooks, meet your new MVPs! For our fifth annual Kitchen Awards, we put nearly 350 kitchen-related submissions to the test in the Good Housekeeping Institute and in our own kitchens; we then checked our findings with 600+ at-home testers....

Protests sweep Cameroon after 92-year-old Paul Biya declared president again

Mass protests have erupted across Cameroon after the Constitutional Council announced that Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state at ninety-two years and in power since 1982, has secured yet another presidential term. His new seven-year...

WHO: Type 2 Poliovirus Prevalence in Africa Drops By 54%

•As 15 countries record 200 million vaccinations in 10 months The World Health Organization (WHO) said the number of African countries with active type 2 poliovirus outbreaks between 2024 and 2025 has declined from 24 to 14, with the total virus...

Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth

BAY OF RANOBE, Madagascar — The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of...

T-Pain and Clinton Sparks on How Their Love of Video Games Led to an E-Sports League With Ne-Yo: ‘Dope Doesn’t Chase Money, Money Chases Dope’

When T-Pain and Clinton Sparks call in to Billboard, Pain is on his tour bus, and Clinton is in his car on his way to meet Howie Mandel. Yes, Howie Mandel — the former Deal or No Deal host and current America’s Got Talent judge. According to...

WHO reports significant decline in polio cases across Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a decline in the number of African countries with active type 2 poliovirus outbreaks, dropping from 24 to 14 between 2024 and 2025, alongside a 54 per cent reduction in virus detections. Dr Mohamed...

Gen Z Uprisings: The New Voice of Global Resistance

Photo courtesy of Straits Times Reports of significant public uprisings from Morocco, a country in North Africa, and Madagascar, an island nation on the African continent, have been consistent in recent days. As usual, youth collectives born...

Kunming Biodiversity Fund approves $5.8 million in funding for FAO-led projects in seven countries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has helped seven countries secure $5.8 million in financing from the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (KBF) to integrate biodiversity into agrifood systems and drive action under the...

Death Matters: Celebrating the dead: Gone but not forgotten

By Jeanette Stehr-Green Many religions and cultures have celebrations to honor those who have died well after their bodies have been cremated or buried. These observances are usually anchored in history and steeped with rituals and traditions....

TIZ rolls out Social Accountability Monitoring Tools training

Judith Phiri,Zimpapers Business Hub Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has committed to strengthening community awareness, closely monitoring the implementation of the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM), and pushing for greater...

Africa Slashes Polio Cases By 54% — But ‘The Last Mile Is Toughest,’ WHO Warns

1 ABUJA – Africa is closer than ever to eradicating polio, with virus detections dropping by 54% in just one year, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says the fight is far from over. “We stand together to celebrate Africa’s progress towards a...

Erastus Asare Donkor and 29 other journalists embody the struggle for freely reported environmental coverage

Journalists all over the world investigate and report on serious issues related to the environment, natural resources, and their management – providing revelations about illegal land exploitation, gold mining, deforestation and pollution. For...

The Great Nicobar Catastrophe

Scientific and Medical Value The forests of Great Nicobar represent an irreplaceable repository of genetic diversity, shaped over millions of years of evolution and isolation. Scientists estimate that tropical rainforests harbour up to half of the...

Protests Went Viral: How Indonesia Sparked Global Youth Movements

Video by ASHLEY DOCUMENTARY. How Indonesia’s Protest Became a Global Blueprint 🧭 The Spark That Lit the Streets Jakarta’s unrest in July 2025 began with a familiar outrage: lawmakers granting themselves new allowances while daily prices soared....

Climate Change Fuelling the Spread of Tuberculosis

By Divya Santhanam Nawazish Naqvi Last year, torrential rains swept across the Horn of Africa, displacing more than 234,000 people across Kenya, Somalia, Burundi and Tanzania. In Dadaab, one of Somalia’s largest refugee camps, the consequences of...

Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.

Throughout the Western world, Madagascar is perhaps best known as a hot spot for wildlife, home to lemurs, chameleons, and other animals — a reputation popularized by movies like Madagascar and shows like Planet Earth. And it’s true that the...

Zoo Lights Shine Now through November

By Simone Kramer A colorful glow lights the sky above the Franklin Park Zoo each night now through November, a result of delicate, larger-than-life lanterns designed to transport people to distant lands, across lively coral reefs and into...