More than 200 migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean were feared to have drowned on Wednesday after their overcrowded fishing boat capsized off Libya.
The world's first-ever ant map showing the distribution of the tiny industrious creature around the globe was launched on Thursday by the University of Hong Kong in a bid to shed more light on the insect world.
US President Barack Obama made an aggressive case for his signature nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that rejecting diplomacy would lead to war and destroy US credibility.
Four years ago, a right-wing extremist gunned down 69 people, shattering the tranquility of the idyllic Norwegian island of Utoya after bombing government buildings in the center of Oslo, killing eight others.
A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha killed 13 people and wounded nine on Thursday, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.
More than 3 out of 5 blacks in the United States say they or a family member have personal experience with being treated unfairly by the police and that their race is the reason why.
Somewhere between the rise of single-cell organisms from the primordial soup and the advent of dating apps, reproduction made the leap from cloning to sex.
Two passenger trains jumped off slippery tracks on a bridge near a rain-swollen river in central India, killing at least 24 people, officials said on Wednesday.
The widow of the Republic of Korea's late president Kim Dae-jung arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday afternoon for her four-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amid remaining cross-border tensions.
An Australian court on Wednesday revoked approval for an Indian-backed project to build what could be one of the world's biggest coal mines, which environmentalists say threatens the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked the US government to look into allegations that it spied on the Japanese government and companies, local media reported.
US President Barack Obama is casting a looming congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal as the United States' most consequential foreign policy debate since the authorization of the Iraq War, a now unpopular decision that still reverberates through US politics.
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