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In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]
2018At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.[†]
Ukara Island is a freshwater island located in Lake Victoria. The island is administratively part of Ukerewe District in Mwanza Region, Tanzania. The island is located 10 km north of Ukerewe Island and it is also was historically known as Bukara.
Within a distressed labor market, thousands of low-paid home workers create luxury garments without contracts or insurance.
The Islamic State killed as many as 30 Afghan wrestlers in a suicide bombing at their gym. The survivors blame the government, too. Now they are rebuilding.
The country has a reputation for allowing multinationals to reduce payments by moving profits through Dutch subsidiaries, but things could be changing.
Despite an outcry from athletes and the antidoping community, the world regulator of drugs in sports pushed ahead with lifting a ban on Russia’s antidoping agency.
Jonah Hill and Emma Stone fight personal demons (sometimes with guns and arrows) in a retro-techno pharmaceutical dystopian family-therapy dramedy.
They say religious conservatives may feel little motivation to vote in the November elections unless Senate Republicans defend and confirm Judge Kavanaugh.
A U.S. military flight over the South China Sea brings harsh Chinese challenges in officially international space. Officers say a new era of risk is here.
For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack — hacked emails, social media fraud, suspected spies — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.
Elina Garanca, Anna Netrebko and newcomers rehearse “Samson et Dalila,” “Aida” and “La Bohème” for the Metropolitan Opera’s opening week.
Dr. Blasey, who accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her as a teenager, has reopened discussions that could lead to testifying next week.
New details about Mr. Moonves’s interactions with an actress’s manager and the unusual role played by an outside lawyer have thrust CBS’s board into an agonizing dilemma.
A for-profit venture with exclusive rights to use the center’s vast archive of tissue slides has generated concerns at the nonprofit cancer center.