Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long worried ...

A wildfire fanned by gale-force winds on the southern Greek island of Crete has forced the evacuation of locals and tourists, ...

Precisely how exposure to particulate pollution from wildfire smoke increases risk for heart failure is not fully understood ...

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation programme said Thursday.

Stocks mostly rose Thursday and the dollar fell as investors eye US jobs data that could play a key role in the Federal ...

Thailand saw its third person helming the prime minister's office in a week on Thursday, as the king swore in a new cabinet ...

US lawmakers teed up a final vote on Donald Trump's marquee tax and spending bill for early Thursday after a bruising day of ...

A senior Chinese official accused the United States defence chief on Thursday of "inciting confrontation and conflict" after ...

China's first domestically built aircraft carrier sailed into Hong Kong on Thursday, just days after the city marked 28 years ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in ...

Los Angeles Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw became just the 20th pitcher to record 3,000 career strikeouts on Wednesday in a ...