1948: the birth of the World Health Organization. The first half of the 20th century saw two world wars, including WWII, the most destructive global conflict in history.

In a World Health Organization-commissioned report on the state of mothers and children in the postwar era, after state-sponsored day care enabled women to enter the workforce in droves, Bowlby ...

Championing the cause of the Global South, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the 17th BRICS Summit that the Global South has not been given its due importance, and that many countries that play a key ...

US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) last month set off a domino effect across the globe – but no one knows exactly what happens next.

Smallpox, in the ultra-violent 20th century, killed more people than war. Ending it took a decade-long logistical effort on approximately the same scale as a war, only with this campaign, lives ...

The 20th Century Limited's more affordable train car was known as "Tavern Lounge No. 43." Here, coach passengers could socialize and hang out in a space separate from their assigned seats.

Rising temperatures could lead to more than 9 million climate-related deaths each year by the end of the century, the World Health Organization said in a report on Friday. Skip to content.

On this week’s program, for example, Co-Producers Burton Benjamin and Isaac Kleinerman, both nine-year veterans of CBS’s distinguished series, The 20th Century, set out to make some ...

Newly-inaugurated President Trump signs executive order to extricate U.S. from the World Health Organization. ... to two non-consecutive terms — the first was Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.

February 1991, the Gulf War. Republican Guard units defend the flank of the Iraqi army occupying Kuwait. The Battle of 73 Easting was named after a north-south coordinate line (an "Easting ...

President Trump’s executive order for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization could greatly impact the nation’s ability to track and respond to global disease threats.

The U.S. should reform the WHO, not leave it. Smallpox eradication proved a great public health and geopolitical success. But just as the WHO was celebrating its global triumph in 1980 it was ...