🇱🇦 Laos
Fourth group of men freed from flooded cave in Laos rescue
Rescuers in Laos pulled four more men out of a flooded cave on Saturday, bringing the total number of survivor
🏆 Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
Historic firsts, records, public milestones, and leaps people will remember for years.
🇱🇦 Laos
Divers rescue first villager trapped in flooded Laos cave for a week
For more than a week, five villagers in Laos were trapped inside a flooded cave with no way out. Now, divers h
🇨🇳 China
Chinese astronauts land at former top secret nuclear missile test site
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth at a site that was once a top secret nuclear missile testing g
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
England's Cerne Abbas Giant Gets First Major Chalk Makeover in Centuries
The Cerne Abbas Giant, the ancient chalk figure carved into a hillside in Dorset, England, is getting its firs
🌍 Botswana
Botswana First Nation to Reach Gold Tier for Ending HIV Transmission to Babies
Botswana has become the first country in the world to reach Gold Tier status for eliminating mother-to-child t
🇺🇸 United States
NASA’s X-59 Jet Aims to Break Sound Barrier Without the Sonic Boom
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is about to do something no civilian jet has done before: fly faster than so
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
First cross-border ambulance moves patient from Hong Kong to mainland China
A mainland Chinese patient has become the first person ever moved from Hong Kong north into mainland China und
🇫🇷 France
French Teen Matches Nadal Record at Roland Garros
A 16-year-old French tennis player has tied a record set by Rafael Nadal 23 years ago at the same tournament.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Russia to build Kazakhstan's first nuclear power plant
Kazakhstan, the world's largest uranium producer, has never had a nuclear power plant of its own. That changes
🇯🇵 Japan
Japan Airlines plans to send human culture to the moon
Japan Airlines wants to blast a capsule of human culture into space and land it on the moon. The airline annou
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Shaw Prize awarded to three scientists for rare leukaemia therapy
A treatment for a rare and aggressive form of leukaemia has earned three scientists one of Hong Kong's most pr
🇺🇸 United States
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
College students across the United States are building robots that could one day dig for resources on the moon
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Hong Kong's first astronaut sparks a space education frenzy
Hong Kong has never sent one of its own into space. That is about to change, and the city's schools are scramb
🇺🇸 United States
Vermont bans paraquat, first US state to act on Parkinson's link
Vermont has become the first state in the United States to ban the weedkiller paraquat, a highly toxic herbici
