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Two rebel militias now threaten Ethiopia’s capital as the current conflict marks its one-year anniversary.

At international climate talks, world leaders are trying to keep the world to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. Why is that number important, and what happens if the world gets hotter than that?

Hindus in India and across the world are celebrating Diwali, the five-day festival of lights. Here’s what celebrations look like across India. (Image credit: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images)

A couple discovered the giant spud while weeding. “We couldn’t believe it,” said Donna Craig-Brown. “It was just huge.” They’ve applied to Guinness to have it recognized as the world’s largest potato. (Image credit: Donna Craig-Brown/AP)

Drive through the swamplands of Western Siberia, and you’ll pass one oil installation after the next. This is the largest petroleum basin on Earth and the heartland of Russia’s vast oil and gas reserves. 

China is expected to have at least 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, according to a new projection by the US military – a significant acceleration of its nuclear weapons programme.

Every ten years the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine publish the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, which outlines the most significant priorities that astronomers should focus on in the following decade. This time around, they’re talking about

Fossils found deep in a South African cave formed part of a hominid child’s skull, apparently left on an alcove by fellow members of her species 250,000 years ago, scientists said on Thursday. The latest find adds to the riddle

A French astronaut reported back on Earth’s climate change damage as seen from space on Thursday, calling it a “sad sight” in a conversation with President Emmanuel Macron. Thomas Pesquet, on his second tour at the International Space Station (ISS)

Pope Francis has for the first time appointed a woman to a high office in the state administration of Vatican City. Sister Raffaella Petrini was named secretary-general of the governorate of Vatican City, the Holy See announced on Thursday. She