The United Nations General Assembly has voted to endorse a new world map that shows Africa's large size more accurately.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

America’s economy added 162,000 jobs in August, taking markets by surprise. The figure was almost triple the 55,000 jobs forecast by economists, rebounding from the sluggish employment numbers of recent months. A strong labour market makes it more likely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later in September.

The race to be crowned the best national team in women's basketball has started as the United States made its 2026 tournament debut in Berlin.

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, took a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto.

America has recorded 3,134 measles cases so far this year, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 230 cases were recorded in the past week alone, driven chiefly by an outbreak in Pennsylvania. The state’s governor has publicly blamed Robert F. Kennedy junior, the health secretary, for his anti-vaccine stance.