The San Francisco Unified School District on Wednesday announced plans to significantly expand its Chinese-language programs, ...

Last week, the World Health Organization declared loneliness a public health threat on the scale of smoking or obesity.

More than 11,000 people came to the Conference Center to witness a major milestone for the Tabernacle Choir: 5,000 episodes — ...

Wilberg has been the choir’s music director since 2008, and was the associate director for the previous nine years, which puts his own involvement with “Music & the Spoken Word” at over 1,600 episodes ...

Named after the airport, the Northwest Side locality is one of Chicago’s officially recognized 77 community areas. But ...

Of the 7,159 living languages in the world that the Ethnologue website now lists, it considers 3,193 to be “endangered,” that is, “It is no longer the norm that children learn and use this language.” ...

For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages ...

President Donald Trump was surprised Wednesday to hear the Liberian president speak fluent English, even though it’s ...

US President Donald Trump met with his Liberian equivalent Joseph Boakai, as well as a number of West African leaders ...

The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the ...

Broadcasters have embraced the tech in the name of boosting accessibility. But few bother to stop and ask what China’s Deaf ...

Pakistan has quickly become one of the world's biggest markets for solar energy. This solar boom has been driven in large part by consumers who are fed up with sky-high electricity costs.