UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband welcomed late Saturday a deal reached between nearly 200 nations at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan as "a critical eleventh hour deal at the eleventh hour for the ...

Noxious smog smothering the plains of north India is not only choking the lungs of residents and killing millions, but also ...

When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she took matters into her own hands and poured her savings into starting a business.

The Canadian government officially apologized Saturday to an Indigenous community for the killing of several hundred sled dogs by police more than half a century ago.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern that the climate finance deal agreed early Sunday in Azerbaijan did not go far enough, as he urged nations to view it as a "foundation" on which ...

UN climate chief Simon Stiell on Sunday said it was "no time for victory laps" after nations at COP29 in Azerbaijan agreed a bitterly negotiated finance deal.

Uruguayans go to the polls Sunday, with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica hoping to reclaim ...

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a ...

A man was shot dead and three members of the security services wounded after gunfire at dawn Sunday in the neighbourhood in Jordan's capital where the Israeli embassy is located, the official Petra ...

The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon for Pennsylvania and a boost for AI, but it is loathed by residents still haunted by a near-catastrophic meltdown ...

After three sleepless nights of back and forth among negotiators, all it took to seal a contentious global deal on climate finance was the hammering of a gavel. And just as quickly, the denunciations ...

Forced to flee Iran, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof says it is bittersweet that his latest movie will contend at the Oscars -- under the banner of another country.