Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its ...

Japan this week marks 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

Beijing issued its highest alert for rainstorms on Monday, days after deadly deluges swept parts of the Chinese capital and ...

Most stock markets bounced on Monday as the chances of US interest rate cuts following a big miss on US jobs creation offset ...

A Malaysian hotel tycoon who helped bring Formula One to Singapore pleaded guilty Monday to abetting the obstruction of ...

Most stock markets bounced on Monday as the chances of US interest rate cuts following a big miss on US jobs creation offset ...

Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing four people and triggering floods ...

Surrounded by a hubbub of blaring music, restaurant terraces and rumbling suitcase wheels slaloming between overflowing ...

On Ireland's blustery western seaboard researchers are gleefully flying giant kites -- not for fun but in the hope of ...

The use of pesticides in East Africa, some sold by European firms despite being banned in the EU, is killing off bees in ...

Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday for help aiding ...