A total solar eclipse will sweep across the vast Indonesian archipelago this week, witnessed by hordes of sky gazers and marked by parties, colorful tribal rituals and Muslim prayers.
Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn't thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and decided against costly and invasive life-prolonging treatment.
EU leaders held a summit with Turkey's prime minister on Monday in a bid to close the Balkans migrant route and urge Ankara to accept deportations of large numbers of economic migrants from overstretched Greece.
Apple Inc customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc ers said on Sunday.
France is to close its oldest nuclear power plant, which is at the center of a row with neighboring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green minister said on Sunday.
The Republic of Korea and the United States kicked off their largest annual war games on Monday, weeks after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea nuclear test and rocket launch, Combined Forces Command said in a statement.
An underwater research craft has spotted a "ghostlike" octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near Hawaii, a discovery that highlights how little is known about the deep sea, a US zoologist said on Saturday.
A fossilized lizard found in Southeast Asia preserved in amber dates back some 99 million years, Florida scientists have determined, making it the oldest specimen of its kind and a "missing link" for reptile researchers.
Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking the radiation-infested reactors of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant.
A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a partial truce in Syria in areas covered by the deal, a monitoring group said on Saturday, highlighting its fragile nature just days before the United Nations attempts to reconvene peace talks.
European leaders will push Turkey at a summit on Monday to agree to "large-scale" deportations of economic migrants from Greece, as EU chief Donald Tusk said he sees the first hints of a resolution to the migrant crisis.
Senior judges in Brazil voiced concern on Saturday over the detention of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, even as they threw their support behind the sweeping corruption investigation that threatens to topple his embattled successor.
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