BEHIND the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might ...

A UN report warns AI may deepen global inequalities unless access, skills and infrastructure improve, urging nations to ...

Economically, the five-year plans have driven sustained industrialization and innovation. The First Five-Year Plan (1953-57) prioritized heavy industry, channeling 20 percent of resources into ...

Throughout the decades, waves of new residents, industries, and innovators have transformed the area into a global business ...

Finding love in rural Japan is not impossible. Despite living in one of the country’s least populated prefectures, more than one of my local friends has gotten married after meeting someone through ...

New Delhi: Demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA, has dropped sharply since June, with official data showing that the number of people seeking ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities ...