More than 100 rarely seen fish species were hauled up from a deep and cold abyss off Australia during a scientific voyage, researchers said Wednesday,...
From halal fried chicken to hot springs hotels with prayer facilities, Taiwan is adapting its traditional tourist draws to woo Muslim visitors as Chinese...
Berlin-based anti-graft group Transparency International published Wednesday its global corruption perceptions index covering 180 countries.
As two armored military vehicles patrol the streets of Tlaxcala, workers unload a pick-up truck full of enormous traditional masks for this lawless Mexican...
Snowboarding at the Olympics turned 20 this year, and there's a good chance that in another two decades, people will still be talking about the contest that...
Some people in Tonga were nailing pieces of wood over their windows while others were evacuating as they braced for a cyclone that was due to hit Monday night.
Asian markets rose Monday after Wall Street gained following a week of history-making losses.
Scotland rebounded from its mauling in Wales by fighting back to beat France 32-26 in Six Nations rugby at Murrayfield, with a string of successful penalty...
American Redmond Gerard claimed the United States’ first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Games Sunday with his victory in the snowboarding slopestyle...
New Zealand wildlife lovers are mourning the death of a gannet named Nigel, dubbed "the loneliest bird in the world" due to the absence of any feathered...
“Tenancingo” means “the walled city” in the Nahuatl language, and it lives up to its name: Mexico’s sex slavery capital is not a place that welcomes scrutiny...
British women won the right to vote 100 years ago after a struggle marked by a violent fringe campaign that shocked the country but helped to change the world.
It’s been a mainstay in the South Pacific for thousands of years.
An Israeli legal rights group said Wednesday it is suing two New Zealanders for allegedly convincing the pop singer Lorde to cancel her performance in Israel...
“The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson is going from Middle Earth to the Western Front, transforming grainy black-and-white footage of World War I...
The Grammys – often derided as a tone-deaf music industry lovefest – will take on new relevance this year, as hip-hop artists for the first time are leading...
Europe is approaching the next stop in its global market-opening drive aimed at countering U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist tilt.
A cosmic event not seen in 36 years – a rare “super blood blue moon” – may be glimpsed Jan. 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East,...
China is pushing its ambitious global trade infrastructure program to the Arctic, outlining Friday its vision for a "Polar Silk Road" for ships as it seeks...
Six Southeast Asian nations launched an intelligence pact on Thursday aimed at combating Islamist militants and improving co-operation on security threats,...