The family of murdered Sri Lanka journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge appealed on Tuesday to the island's new president to ...

Jakarta and Wellington denied Monday a claim by rebels in Indonesia's restive region of Papua that a New Zealand pilot was ...

Fungi have various tricks up their mycelia. They use enzymes to break down materials that can also cause havoc in the tissues ...

Two huge earthquakes 17 years apart robbed Shoichi Miyakoshi first of his wife, and then his home. Now, his temporary ...

Heavy rain that triggered floods and landslides on a Japanese penisula recovering from an earthquake this year killed at ...

Most Asian markets rose Monday, building on last week's rally following the Federal Reserve's bumper interest rate cut, with ...

California tops the ranking with a score of 82.7. The state has the most population at 38 million, and the most number of ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect will be sworn into office Monday after simmering public anger over the island nation's ...

The UN's refugee chief questioned Sunday what future awaited the Sudanese people as the country's civil war rages, pushing ...

World powers on Sunday implored Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement to refrain from escalating their conflict ...

A regional military escalation is not in Israel's "best interest," White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said on ...

The "Pact for the Future" is the United Nations' master plan for tackling challenges that lie ahead for humanity.