China has surged past the U.S. to become the world's largest source of patent applications. It now accounts for roughly 27% of all global patent applications, the highest share of any country, ...

You might assume that the world’s largest chain restaurant is Starbucks or McDonald’s. Nope. And there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. In 2024, Mixue, a bubble tea brand from Hong Kong, ...

Construction is nearing completion on the world’s largest green hydrogen facility in the Saudi desert, with work accelerating as the year draws to a close. Satellite imagery shows the Green Hydrogen ...

Despite living just 20 minutes away from four world-class ski resorts in Utah, I still get excited to see what the slopes are like in other places. There’s hardly a ski destination on Earth that’s not ...

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An agreement signed this year transfers sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago from the U.K. to Mauritius. This vast expanse in the middle of the Indian Ocean is home to exceptional marine biodiversity ...

The Carreras Pampas tracksite in Torotoro National Park, Bolivia, has set a new world record with the largest collection of dinosaur footprints ever found. © World ...

Dec. 8 (UPI) --A charity event in Switzerland attempted a Guinness World Record by assembling a mural from 300,000 Lego bricks. The mural, which measures nearly 79 feet long and more than 6 feet tall, ...

Ivano Aiello receives funding from private donors. When fire broke out at the world’s largest battery energy storage facility in January 2025, its thick smoke blanketed surrounding wetlands, farms and ...

Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is heading to Galveston to embark on dozens of coastal getaways during the 2027-2028 travel season. The Icon will offer three dozen ...

The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations. By John Yoon Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded ...