AGRA, India - A series of powerful superstorms that tore through India this week have killed 143 people, as officials warned Friday the death toll could rise with more extreme weather expected.
HAWAII - The Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island came to life on Thursday, belching ash into the sky and spewing fountains of lava in a residential area where people were ordered to leave their homes, officials said.
HAVANA - Along one of Havana's busiest avenues, a renovated warehouse now houses a place that has long been a dream for Cuba's private sector.
SYDNEY - Two shipwrecks found during the hunt for missing flight MH370 in the remote Southern Ocean were identified on Thursday as 19th century merchant vessels carrying coal, each crewed by up to 30 people.
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Mississippi - When NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba was out doing a spacewalk during a recent trip to the International Space Station, he held on tight.
TOKYO - At a century-old workshop in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, craftsman Yuichi Hirose brushes dye across meticulously hand-cut stencils laid on fabric, using a traditional technique to produce contemporary kimono patterns.
The final research paper submitted by Stephen Hawking days before his death suggests our universe might be one of an endless supply of very similar universes created by the Big Bang.
A US teenager criticized on social media for wearing a traditional Chinese dress to her high school prom defended her decision and has won support from netizens in China.
NEW YORK - For 108 years, the Boy Scouts of America's flagship program has been known simply as the Boy Scouts. With girls soon entering the ranks, the group says that iconic name will change.
MUNICH, Germany - Diethild Heubel pulls a precious document from a binder: a yellowed decades-old letter, neatly handwritten by her father, a German soldier taken prisoner at the end of World War II.
PARIS - Were the early humans roaming east Asia more than half-a-million years ago clever enough to build seafaring watercraft and curious enough to cross a vast expanse of open sea?
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