The largest piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3m. Meteorite NWA 16788, offered by Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, July ...

The British government said Thursday it would allow 16 year-olds to vote in general elections, a landmark change giving the ...

Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned and injured elephants to the wild on Thursday after nursing them back to health under a long-running conservation project, officials said.

Russian lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill that would outlaw opening or searching for content online judged "extremist", ...

Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's new prime minister, represents a generation of young Ukrainian politicians who have steered their ...

Turkish prosecutors are seeking a minimum of five years in jail for political commentator Fatih Altayli, accused of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a rights group said on Thursday.

A strike on Gaza's only Catholic church injured several people on Thursday, the territory's civil defence agency and the ...

Taipei came to a brief standstill on Thursday when air raid sirens forced people off the streets and into underground shelters in a rehearsal for a Chinese attack.

Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC reported Thursday a forecast-beating 60 percent rise in net profit for the second quarter on ...

Filipino seafarer Cocoy was off-duty and resting in his cabin when the captain's voice boomed over the intercom of the cargo ...

A 60-year-old farmer in China has built his own "Big Black Fish" -- a homemade submarine that can accommodate two people, ...

Air India's inspection of the locking feature on the fuel control switches of its existing Boeing 787 aircraft found no ...