The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

MoU to align standards, integrate platforms, and accelerate safe autonomous mobility in [the UAE, Central Asia, Africa, and other markets ...

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

Day, Evansville's Landing Ship Tank (LST) 325 was delivering troops and tanks to Omaha Beach; annual cruise funds museum, ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays Africa’s truer size, has opened up a deeper conversation, not just about ...

Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company, and Dynamic Map Platform North America (DMP), the US-based subsidiary of Japan’s Dynamic Map Platform, ha ...

Linked to South Bend's former Ethnic Festival in spirit, Fusion Fest celebrates the cultures of the world with food, entertainment and more.

In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of overweight children around the world crept up in the 1980s, as junk food became a ...