Instead, they use north, south, east, and west for everything, from describing the location of a nearby object to giving complex directions across long distances.

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In an era of increasing global uncertainty, Xi's call for high-quality cooperation grounded in the China-Central Asia Spirit signals a potent and principled counter-narrative to the growing waves of ...

Eight Missouri football recruiting targets will announce their college commitments in the next 10 days. Here are the names and dates to watch.

MedGlobal, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that arranges for hundreds of medical workers to treat people in Gaza, called for the release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical workers.

‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map Commonly used projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is ...

Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation Titles like City Bus Manager and Global Farmer are benefiting from OpenStreetMap.

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually pulling the African continent apart, potentially creating a new ocean.

It was a meeting of East and West on Sunday as people around the world celebrated Easter on the same day, an overlap that happens every three to four years.

Sparsely populated areas in the Jordan Valley have come under increasing pressure from settlers who have begun grazing large flocks of sheep on the hillsides used by Bedouin and other herders.

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that ...

This massive distraction of the Trump administration's Gaza non-plan and the even more serious move of dismantling America’s ability to shape and influence events abroad together carry three risks for ...