The furthest north the World Cup has gone is Sandviken in Sweden in 1958, the furthest east is Sapporo in Japan in 2002 and ...

Brazil was drawn in Group C — which will play two of its matches in Boston. France is in Group I, which also plays two ...

In our roundup of travel news this week: the world’s top 100 cities for 2025, the world’s best hotels, the world’s tallest hotel, the world’s longest, deepest, undersea rail tunnel, plus two new ...

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass ...

FIFA announced the start times for the tournament's 104 matches a day after the draw for the expanded 48-nation tournament, ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup draw was an entertaining, colorful and, at times, somewhat baffling ceremony. But when the dust ...

Several close U.S. allies urged a return to the negotiating table in the wake of American strikes on Iran that fueled fears of a wider conflict, while noting the threat posed by Tehran’s nuclear ...

You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of ...

As the world reacted to news of U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, international officials largely responded with alarm and calls for restraint — though some expressed praise. Across the ...

The Vatican on Thursday announced that Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, will take up the highest authority in the Catholic Church after only two days of deliberation and voting by the papal conclave ...

They were crying in their beer. A funeral was held for a town’s only beer store on the day it closed its doors after 75 years in business. The town of Bala, in Ontario, hosted the bittersweet ceremony ...