Perched on the 27th floor of the Grand Kempinski Hotel in Shanghai, looking down at the barges, ferries, floating cranes and police boats surging back and forth along the Huangpu River, I felt a profound sense of vertigo — and in multiple dimensions.

A tree regarded as the icon of the African savannah is dying in mysterious circumstances.

North Koreans woke up to news on Monday that their leader Kim Jong Un had arrived in Singapore for a landmark summit with US President Donald Trump.

US President Donald Trump says he wants Russia to rejoin the G7 group of key industrialised nations.

Megacities are on the rise (PDF). There are 47 such areas around the globe, each housing more than 10 million residents.

America’s student loan debt problem is nearing a full-blown crisis.

Cardiff University has said that it will review the support available to staff after it emerged that a lecturer who took his own life had complained about his heavy workload.

Walk down the street on garbage day in many towns, and evidence of our love affair with online shopping is plain to see.

Lobbying group for independent colleges says it's open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but remains opposed to student-level database favored by public colleges and many policy makers.

A total of 9.75 million Chinese high school students have begun to take the 2018 National College Entrance Examination, also known as the Gaokao.