Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that of the whole African continent. As it turns out, the map we’ve long relied on to depict the world isn ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Iowa doesn't want to go all-in on digital maps just yet, so the state has recently released a full road map on paper; it is ...

PDF files are ubiquitous in this cross-platform world, making it possible to view ... changing font style, size, and color; and so on. A standard set of markup tools is also available.

Global maps that depict gradations of psychological traits often conceal as much as they reveal. Here’s a guide for savvy map ...

racing more than 14,000 kilometres across Asia – the world’s largest continent. In a challenging twist though, contestants have their mobile phones stripped away from them, meaning they must rely on ...

This got us thinking – where in the world can you retire the earliest? The answer is Sri Lanka at the age of 55, a far cry from Denmark’s retirement age. We take a look below at the country ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

Central banks around the world are lowering borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the multi-decade highs reached in many countries in recent years. The FT global inflation and interest ...

Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing ...