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Along US Route 40, African diplomats were routinely denied service at local establishments. But their treatment set off a civil rights struggle that led to outlawing segregation.

Consumers can struggle to unravel whether claims about a brand or product's sustainability are accurate, but regulators are cracking down on misleading climate claims in advertising.

The shifting of European history's tectonic plates is not really that unexpected, explains Kevin Connolly.

From the entirely pointless (grape scissors, we’re looking at you) to the ever so useful. Which of these cooking gadgets do you wish had stuck around?

To pull reluctant workers back to the office, some employers are upping pay packets and offering perks just for stepping through the door. Is it the right approach?

Even after a mild infection, the overall size of the brain had shrunk, researchers found.

Gidikumar Patil, who bought two big cats, said he will not leave home without his pets.

Renaissance-era ice cream moulds, 500-year-old cookbooks, recipes meant only for popes: Rome's newest museum is a fascinating homage to Italy's history of food and cooking.

Our modern kitchens are much safer than cooking over smoke-filled open fires. But, Veronique Greenwood writes, not every danger has disappeared.

What do experts make of the diet Shane Warne was on?

In 1938, a Ukrainian-born grandmother created one of art's biggest shocks – but it was attributed to the US painter Jackson Pollock, writes Kelly Grovier.

Hassan travelled 1,200km to Slovakia with two bags, a passport and his relatives' phone number.

False claims have been spreading that the Ukraine war is a hoax and that actors have been involved in staging events.

A tiny lake in New Zealand's South Island is the crown jewel on an isolated pest-free island reserve that's reaping the rewards of regeneration.

Policymakers in many nations are trying to reform the gig economy. Yet regulations have a long way to go to meet the needs of growing numbers of platform-based workers.

The child was filmed singing the track from the Disney film while sheltering in a Ukraine basement.

The EU Commission outlines an ambitious roadmap to cut imports of Russian gas by two thirds in a year.

The US bans Russian oil, targeting the Russian economy's "main artery" over its invasion of Ukraine.

For many people, the world is in a state of upheaval that can feel difficult to cope with, but can the teachings of the Stoics help in these troubling times?

The global internet is under threat as the conflict in Ukraine continues.

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

We’ve been taught to keep work and play apart. Yet more of us are still taking workcations, years into the pandemic – and reaping the benefits. The trend could be here to stay.

For some 700 years, the Geiyo Islands were dominated by pirates – a key era in Japan's history that the country is developing new appreciation for today.

The US is eyeing new rules for cryptocurrencies as concerns rise about the fast-growing industry.