Officials in towns downstream from where millions of gallons of mine waste spilled into a southwest Colorado river are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to their water supply.
The police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson, Missouri, during a fourth consecutive night of demonstrations marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong asked the Indian government on Tuesday to tell Mahavir Mandir - an Indian trust - to abandon its plan to build a near-replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple.
A 9-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.
Long dead but little forgotten, US soldiers who disappeared across the globe during World War II are being reunited with their loved ones in a dogged push to find and bring home their bodies.
The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed that attract biting sand fleas and smell like rotten eggs.
A comet streaking through space with a European robot lab riding piggyback will skirt the Sun this week in another landmark in the extraordinary quest to unravel the mystery of Earth life.
US entertainment giant Disney was forced to apologize after one of its Japanese-language tweets was criticized for being insensitive as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Parents at the center of a growing child abuse scandal in Pakistan accused police on Monday of failing to do enough to break up a pedophile ring in Punjab province, the prime minister's political heartland.
Wielding a machete, Rod Beattie slashes at tangled undergrowth and soaring bamboo to expose vistas from one of World War II's iconic sagas. Out of the jungle appear remnants of a railway that cost the lives of more than 100,000 Allied prisoners and Asians enslaved by Japan's Imperial Army.
A stampede at a temple during a Hindu religious festival left at least 11 pilgrims dead and dozens injured early on Monday in eastern India, police said.
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