The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

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A new United Nations report for 2025 shows a major shift in global city rankings. Jakarta has now become the world’s most ...

An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population, 56,000 people, control three times more wealth than the poorest ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 people ...

A Newsweek map shows the world’s 100 largest cities by population, according to updated United Nations data —including the only two U.S. metropolises to make the cut: New York and Los Angeles.

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The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly ...

Physicist Heinz von Foerster predicted back in 1960 that the world would end in 2026. von Foerster stated in his prediction ...

A new U.N. report says the world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion. UNITED NATIONS — The world’s ...

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United ...