The term 'First World' now refers to nations with advanced economies and high living standards. This list ranks countries based on UN Human Development and Quality of Life indices. The top nations for ...

When an issue, problem, or annoyance isn’t life or death, we tend to brush it off as a “First World” problem. This suggests the problem isn’t worth solving, and, as School of Life explains in this ...

High GDP and diversified economies mark first-world countries. First-world countries rank high on UN's Human Development Index. Label "first world" has evolved due to its problematic connotations.

The idea of a soccer World Cup in 1930 was nearly killed in the cradle, the victim from lack of planning, lack of money and ...

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

The 2022 FIFA World Cup — the first to take place during the Northern Hemisphere winter months — has kicked off in Qatar. While the world awaits a winner, fans should be reminded that only eight ...

All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the ...

In 1905 prosperity and progress boosted the mood in the U.S. and much of western Europe. The treaty concluding the war by the victorious Japanese against the hapless Russians led to this sentiment by ...