Vladimir Kara-Murza is a critic of the Russian government. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison last year on charges of treason for speaking agains...

U.S. health officials are urging older adults to get an additional updated COVID-19 vaccine shot. The advice for Americans 65 and older was recently...

In today's Words and Their Stories, we look at the meaning of 'read the riot act.' It is not a pleasant feeling to be read the riot act.

Our very ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don’t we have them now? Read and listen to the story in simple English.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a non-profit group based in Washington D.C. that aims to support academic freedom and tenu...

Today on our series How to Pronounce, we learn how to say the common phrase 'excuse me.'

Today's News Word is function. The verb function means to perform an action correctly and as expected or desired. The noun form can mean several th...

A cooking program helps people who were in prison, unemployed or undergoing treatment for drug use learn a skill they can quickly put into practice.

Are you starting to experiment with artificial intelligence tools? Do you have any funny stories?

On this week's English in a Minute, Dan tells Anna why their co-worker has a chip on his shoulder.

Have you walked through the Vatican museums to see the famous Sistine Chapel? Did you know there were "secrets" in the archive?

This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Mequanent, who asks about the difference between "must" and "have to."

On a recent cold winter night in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, long lines of people began to form for the arrival of cheesemaker Pantelis Panteli and t...

The United Nations Environment Programme said in a report on Wednesday that public waste creation will greatly increase by 2050. The writers of the r...

American Stories presents 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane. The short story was first published in 1897. The story tells of the hard work it takes f...

Every year, the Recording Academy in the United States gives awards to the performers and songwriters with the most outstanding achievements from the...

The pilots started their jet engines on a runway in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai on Wednesday. But they were not preparing to fly an aircraf...

The U.S. Army recently announced new structuring plans for its forces. The plans involve cutting many unfilled jobs after hiring efforts failed to bri...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is on an island halfway between Europe and the North Pole. It contains frozen seeds of food crops from around the world...

There was a time when activists and reporters in Cuba had to speak in code or meet in European embassies to avoid government observation. Now, the in...

Internet search companies have already built artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their systems. And the use of AI systems to support internet sear...

Our "Teach Us About Ukraine" series presents today's winning story from Liudmyla Shylova. She has been teaching English for 21 years in Nizhyn, Ukrai...

A United Nations official warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine, an extreme lack of food, if the war there does not stop soon....

South Korea’s fertility rate, which already is the world’s lowest, dropped again in 2023. A fertility rate is the average number of children a woman...