French writer Laurent Mauvignier on Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for a 750-page family saga ...

Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed jubilant Sikh pilgrims from India, in the first major crossing since deadly clashes in May ...

Armed with his camera, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra has spent years in the occupied West Bank documenting ...

Residents sought refuge on rooftops and cars floated through flooded streets on Tuesday as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines, leaving at least two people dead.

South Korea will triple spending on artificial intelligence and make its biggest defence budget increase in six years, ...

Nearly one week after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on the ...

Brazil recorded its biggest annual fall in greenhouse gas emissions last year since 2009, according to statistics released Monday, providing a boost for left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

A train buff has spent more than five years building a stunning working miniature railway track - in his own back garden. James Ardin, 36, created the 660-yard line, which circles his three-acre plot ...

Victor Conte, the mastermind of the notorious BALCO doping scandal that rocked athletics and baseball during the early 2000s, ...

This was the moment a Brit broke the national record for lifting the heaviest LOG. Jack Osborn, 27, broke the British log lift record, pressing a whopping 222kg (491lb) over his head in front of ...

A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them before feasting.

A medieval tower in central Rome that was under renovation partially collapsed on Monday, with one worker trapped alive under ...