California
UC Santa Barbara is the 2025 top party school in America, according to an education research and ranking site.
Aug. 24, 2024
World & Nation
Muhammad Yunus takes oath as the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, after an uprising forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.
Aug. 8, 2024
Olympics
Julien Alfred delivered Saint Lucia’s first Olympic medal and blocked American star Sha’Carri Richardson from claiming gold in the 100-meter dash.
Aug. 3, 2024
Ales Bialiatski, an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is serving a 10-year prison sentence and suffers from multiple chronic illnesses.
July 10, 2024
Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year in prison over her activism
June 19, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning short story author known for ‘Dear Life,’ has died. She was 92.
May 14, 2024
An Iran court sentences imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to 15 more months, saying she spread propaganda against Islamic Republic.
Jan. 15, 2024
A campaign urging Iran to free Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment.
Nov. 6, 2023
Books
Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in literature for his ‘innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.’
Oct. 5, 2023
Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to resolve international conflicts, has died.
Oct. 16, 2023