The United Kingdom has announced a 40% increase in its contribution to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA)—from 1.414 billion GBP in IDA20 and to GBP 1.98 billion GBP in IDA21 ...

Hezbollah has vowed to continue its resistance and support Palestinians on the day its ceasefire deal with Israel came into ...

Net-zero energy buildings are the exception rather than the norm. But this design firm is hoping to change that.

BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike flattened a building near one of Beirut’s ... participation in overseeing ceasefire compliance. A World Bank report estimated the cost of physical damage and ...

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of ... over a remit including building regulations and the ...

A hotel in the Philippines now has something to crow about – a Guinness Book of World Records accolade for the biggest chicken-shaped building in the world. The quirky hotel is a recent addition ...

Tajikistan joined the World Bank in 1993 and IDA in 1994 ... as well as institutional capacity building of tax, finance, and statistics bodies. Tajikistan's economy grew by 8.3% in 2023, supported by ...

WASHINGTON--The World Bank is downgrading its outlook for the global economy, blaming continuing outbreaks of COVID-19, a reduction in government economic support and ongoing bottlenecks in global ...

Then you should know that a spot in the Philippines has become home, officially, to the world's largest building shaped like a chicken! In the quaint town of Campuestohan in Negros Occidental ...

SPRINGFIELD — The former headquarters of Hampden Savings Bank at 1665 Main St. was sold ... retail space and upstairs housing. The historic building — most recently a law office — was ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --A hotel in the Philippines that stands 114 feet, 7 inches tall was awarded a Guinness World record for the largest building in the shape of a chicken. Campuestohan Highland Resort ...

The world’s first wooden satellite ... With a 50-year plan of planting trees and building timber houses on the moon and Mars, Doi’s team decided to develop a NASA-certified wooden satellite ...