It's been nearly a month since Diomar Pereira has had running water at his home in Itu, a commuter city outside Sao Paulo that is at the epicenter of the worst drought to hit southeastern Brazil in more than eight decades.
Philippine climate change envoy Naderev Sano will reach on Saturday ground zero of the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, completing an epic march he believes will help spur action against global warming.
More than three years after the Fukushima disaster, the final obstacle to restarting two nuclear reactors in Japan was removed Friday when local politicians granted their approval for a plant in the south to go back online.
Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that retired Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden.
From robots that chop up your vegetables to detectors that measure how long you sleep, "smart" appliances are becoming more and more a part of daily life, according to industry players.
The United Nations' Ebola chief said an extraordinary global response over the past month has made him hopeful the outbreak could end in 2015, although he cautioned that the fight to contain the disease is not even a quarter done.
Belgian riot police fired tear gas and water cannon during clashes with demonstrators on Thursday night after at least 100,000 people marched through Brussels in a mass protest against the new government's austerity measures.
New Zealand authorities made an embarrassing about-face on Friday when prosecutors dropped a murder-for-hire charge against AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd, saying there was not enough evidence to proceed.
Newly declassified segments from the diary of former US president Richard Nixon's chief-of-staff provide a detailed, subtle portrait of the disgraced president.
South Korea's National Assembly approved plans to disband the coast guard on Friday, following criticism over its failure to rescue hundreds of passengers during the sinking of a ferry in April.
Given that the Sino-Japanese relationship has entered a complicated transformation period, in which crisis and unexpected incidents are likely to occur, China needs to come up with innovative policies to address the new situation so that the Japanese could change the way they perceive the rising China.
With the Republicans taking over both houses of the US Congress after the midterm election on Tuesday, President Barack Obama is going to Asia next week in a very different mood.
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