Thousands of people gathered in southern Ethiopia for one of the country's biggest cultural events.

Ceremony sees the official transfer of power from one customary ruler to his successor - something that happens every eight years .

The tradition of regularly appointing a new Abbaa Gadaa has been practised by the Borana community for centuries .

Each age group takes the opportunity to wear their different traditional outfits.

The number of people saying they’re proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month .

Pride in being Canadian is highest among people aged 55 and over.

Pride spiked among respondents in Quebec , Ontario , the Prairies and British Columbia .

The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadians from March 1 to March 2 .

Sweden was rated the best country in the world for quality of life in a recent U.S. News report.

The country's life expectancy is 83 , two years higher than the OECD average.

Sweden is known as a champion of sustainability and green living.

The United States ranked 23rd and fifth in the list of best countries.

Two people in Oklahoma have "exposure associated with the Texas and New Mexico measles outbreak" The two cases are being reported as probable cases because testing hasn't confirmed the infections.

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases on the planet, infecting 90 percent of unvaccinated people.

Only 88 percent of Oklahoma 's kindergartners were up to date on measles vaccination.

National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Jennifer Homendy lays out frightening statistics about near misses.

In just over three years , she says, there were 85 close calls when a few feet in the wrong direction could have resulted in the same kind of accident that happened on Jan. 29 .

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he'll adopt the NTSB ’s recommendations for the route where the midair collision occurred.

The Army has said the Black Hawk crew was highly experienced, and accustomed to the crowded skies around the nation’s capital.

The NTSB in its ongoing investigation will look at the amount of traffic at Reagan and the staffing in the control tower to determine if either of those factors played a role in the collision.

It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report.

On 28 January , Donald Trump issued an executive order to ban access to gender-affirming care for youth under 19 years old .

A federal judge in Maryland blocked the ban on 4 March .

The order prohibits the government from withholding federal funding to healthcare facilities that provide treatment to trans youth.

Some parents say that their children’s mental health severely declined in weeks following the executive order.

One in four Black transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide in the past year , more than double the rate of their cisgender counterparts.

Black transgender people, who experience the intersecting stigma of being gender diverse and racial minorities, are at even greater risk of poor mental health.

The federal executive order and a looming ban on puberty blockers for minors has caused anxiety for parents.

Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS) is piloting an African currency market platform.

The platform will allow parties to exchange local currencies directly, CEO Mike Ogbalu said.

Africa 's foreign exchange markets are often shallow and liquidity is limited, with South Africa and Nigeria dominating.

The SPHEREx mission is designed to map the entire celestial sky, studying hundreds of millions of galaxies and piecing together how the universe formed and evolved.

The spacecraft’s instruments will observe the cosmos in 102 different colors, or wavelengths, which NASA says is more than any previous mission.

The $488 million observatory will survey the whole sky four times over its two-year mission.

Hybrid microscope developed at the Marine Biological Laboratory allows scientists to capture both the 3D orientation and position of molecular ensembles, such as labeled proteins inside cells.

The microscope combines polarized fluorescence, which measures molecular orientation, with a dual-view light sheet microscope that captures depth details in a sample.

UN adopts new tourism employment indicator to guide efforts towards the SDGs.

Global data on tourism employment will be systematically monitored within the SDG monitoring process.

Tourism accounted for 5.6% of global employment between 2015 and 2023 .

In 2023 alone, 127 million persons were employed in tourism worldwide.