Almost 9,700 children and adolescents have tried to cross the infamous Darien Gap in the first two months of 2023, a seven-fold increase compared to the same period in 2022, according to a UNICEF report.Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 10:44PM

After more than a year of soaring prices monopolizing the attention of Wall Street, Main Street, economists, and journalists, the tide may be turning. Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 12:06PM

Even as rents are cooling in some parts of the country, it has never cost more to rent a Manhattan apartment as it did in March.Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 01:10PM

The fallout from the recent banking crisis is likely to push the US economy into a mild recession later this year, according to notes from the Federal Reserve’s March policy meeting, released on Wednesday. Story Published at: April 12, 2023 at 08:46PM

French President Emmanuel Macron might have hoped to focus this week on what may prove the biggest domestic test of his leadership, as France’s Constitutional Council prepares to rule Friday on whether or not he can push ahead with controversial pension reforms. Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 11:15AM

President Joe Biden is spending much of his trip to Ireland this week exploring his family’s roots, from the shoemaker who sailed from Newry in 1849 in search of a better life in America to the brick-seller in Ballina who sold 28,000 bricks to pay for his own family’s passage to the US.Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 10:13AM

A former J-pop star trainee came forward with allegations Wednesday that he and multiple other young men were sexually abused by the late Johnny Kitagawa, once a powerful figure in Japan’s entertainment industry. Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 09:50AM

Sea levels on China’s coastline have hit their highest on record for the second year in a row, rising more quickly than the global average and posing a serious threat to coastal cities such as the financial hub of Shanghai.Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 10:44AM

A massive cyclone swirling off Australia’s western coast will likely make landfall as a category 5 storm — the strongest on the national scale — according to the country’s official forecaster. Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 06:37AM

Japan’s population has fallen for the 12th consecutive year, as deaths rise and the birth rate continues to sink, according to government data released Wednesday.Story Published at: April 13, 2023 at 07:37AM