Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

World War II ended 80 years ago and Edward J. Behling is among those still around who can give an account from a soldier’s ...

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled Thailand and Burma on Friday ... the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world." ...

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

As our map shows, the impact was felt across a large ... The country was originally called Burma. It was changed by the country’s national government from the Union of Burma to the Republic ...

Told over multiple time periods, the five-part drama follows Dorrigo as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway ... it chimed with the World War Two prison camp ...

The game presents the player with a randomly selected image of a stretch of road on Google Street View; at the top of the screen is a timer, and at the bottom is a world map. The aim is to use ...

Burma is one of the most tightly controlled dictatorships in the world. For more than four decades, Burma’s 50 million people have been oppressed by military rulers who have systematically ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...