President Vladimir Putin said that Russia must defend itself if threatened, as the US warned against a return to a "Cold War status" after

The world's largest underground aquifers – a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people — are being depleted at alarming

See the 10 most beautiful destinations for a Qingming outing in China.

Cleaner air worldwide will save two million lives a year and not only in the most polluted countries, a study finds.

A Georgian man has been killed by a lion after it escaped from a flooded zoo in the capital, Tbilisi.

To prevent epidemics, American tech compnay Microsoft is developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs of potentially harmful viruses being spread by them.

With President Obama’s trade agenda in jeopardy in Congress, the nations of Asia are weighing the potential impact of a failed deal on local jobs and exports, but also something else: American influence in the region.

At least 16 people, including 13 children, are killed when Syrian air force jets bombed a town in Deraa province on Tuesday, activists say.

China had four million millionaire households in 2014, the second-highest in the world after the United States, as the country's stock

A quarter of a million children face starvation in war-torn South Sudan, with an end to the 18-month conflict as distant as ever, the

Pakistan yesterday hanged seven prisoners, bringing the total number put to death since executions resumed last December to 160,

Rebel rocket fire killed at least 34 civilians in Aleppo in one of the bloodiest days of the conflict for government-held areas of Syria's

At least 18 people were killed and 98 injured yesterday when a train hit a lorry and derailed at a level crossing in one of Tunisia's worst

North Korea has been hit by its worst drought in a century, state media said yesterday, sparking fears of worsening food shortages in the impoverished communist country.

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

A group of eminent intellectuals in India have expressed deep concern over the "thoughtless articulation of jingoist sentiments" by high-level representatives of the government and BJP in the wake of the Army operation in Myanmar and urged it to disassociate itself from them.

Jeb Bush jumped headlong into the US presidential race Monday, insisting "America deserves better" after eight years of Barack Obama, as the Republican seeks to win over voters skeptical of his political pedigree.

The South African government has a week to explain to judges why it defied a court order barring the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country.

An Egyptian court yesterday upheld a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising.

Pope Francis will this week warn that global warming threatens the future of the planet and say there is both an urgent need and moral imperative to reduce fossil fuel consumption, Vatican sources said yesterday.