Samoa on Tuesday said it had detected and contained "small leakages" from a New Zealand navy vessel wrecked on a reef while ...

The queue outside Istanbul's Our Lady of Vefa church stretched more than 200 metres, made up of Christians and Muslims ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish ...

Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study ...

Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told ...

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto has embarked on a whirlwind diplomatic tour ahead of his inauguration this month, ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold talks this week on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Laos, a top ...

With carrots and strawberries, zookeepers lure Chompers the porcupine into an animal carrier, hoping to keep the creature -- ...

Slated for demolition, the graffiti-covered building close to the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for ...

A record number of climbers are gathered in Tibet to complete mountaineering's pinnacle achievement, summiting the world's ...

Israel's bombardment of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold has forced tens of thousands to flee to the capital, but many in ...

Three hours into his shift as a street sweeper in Madrid on a summer afternoon when temperatures went above 40 degrees ...