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.

There are memories of at-bats that will always standout in a major league player’s career—first MLB at-bat, first All-Star Game appearance, first postseason AB, and the first time a player steps into ...

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 ...

In Swimming World Magazine’s latest edition of World Record Flashback, we take a trip to the Jamail Swim Center on the campus of the University of Texas. There, in early 2001, Michael Phelps set 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 ...

When the 1930 tournament was staged in Uruguay, some nations could not afford the trip, players did not take it seriously and fights were common. What has changed since then.

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 ...