After three years of staying on the east side of the Willamette River, the marquee parade of the Portland Rose Festival, the Grand Floral Parade, will return to downtown Portland in 2025. However, this doesn’t mean the Grand Floral Parade is exactly back to normal.

South Korea's record-low birth rate rose in 2024, the country's statistics agency reported on Wednesday, marking the first increase in nine years in a slight respite from a looming demographic crisis.

South Korea's fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday (February 26), in a sign that the country's demographic crisis might have turned a corner.

South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s demographic crisis might have turned a corner.