CNN  —  The world’s happiest country has managed to keep its No. 1 ranking for eight years running. The picture in the United States isn’t so rosy. While Finland once again tops the World Happiness Report’s rankings, the United States — at No. 24 — earned its lowest ranking yet in the 2025 report. The

Owen Pinnell BBC Eye Investigations BBC An iridescent film could be seen on the water surface in some places the BBC visited Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. Data leaked by a former employee reveals more than 800

Getty Images Strangers are about twice as kind as people think, a study looking at happiness across the globe suggests. This year’s World Happiness Report – released on Thursday – measured trust in strangers by deliberately losing wallets, seeing how many were returned and comparing that with how many people thought would be handed in.

A man overlooks the aftermath of the airstrikes in Gaza. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR The two month ceasefire in Gaza has come to an end with Israel conducting airstrikes, killing five Hamas officials along with over 400 others, including many children. The Israeli military has also restarted ground operations in Gaza,

After dipping into correction territory late last week, the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.08%) is currently down by 8.73% since mid-February, as of this writing. Recession fears are still surging, however, with close to 60% of U.S. investors feeling pessimistic about the market’s six-month future, according to a mid-March survey from the American Association of Individual Investors.

Mayor Brandon Johnson called Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates on the carpet Wednesday afternoon in a bid to avert a strike and force the sides to settle a months-long fight over school district finances. The rare convening of the three major players in a long-running power

Getty Images Protesters blocked a bridge in Budapest after the law passed on Tuesday Hungary has passed a law banning Pride marches held by the LGBTQ+ community, sparking outrage in and out of the country. Parliament voted for the measure just a day after the bill was submitted on Monday, in a process fast-tracked by

Nicole Kolster and Gustavo Ocando Alex BBC Mundo in Venezuela Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, at the White House Nicole Kolster/BBC Mundo Myrelis Casique López insists her son is innocent and not a gang member In a poor neighbourhood of the Venezuelan city of Maracay, the mother of 24-year-old Francisco José García Casique was waiting

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