When he was a teenager, Bekmurad Khodjayev used to hide from his parents to smoke. Fifty years later, the Turkmen pensioner ...

Senator Rodrigo Paz, the surprise top finisher in Bolivia's first-round presidential election, spent years traveling the ...

It is the highest-grossing movie of the year, and the biggest animated film ever made -- but if you live outside China, ...

Non-fossil fuels now account for half of India's installed energy capacity -- years ahead of schedule -- but the ...

Volunteer Dutch divers are still fishing debris from the North Sea six years after a disastrous shipping accident.

Asian markets mostly fell Wednesday morning, mirroring a rout of US tech titans the previous day as investors await signals ...

Japan's oldest professional player of the board game Go retired on Wednesday aged 98, saying that she can no longer handle ...

A military court sentenced a New Zealand soldier on Wednesday to two years' detention for attempted espionage for a foreign ...

Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat's milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters ...

Australia lashed Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after he said the country's prime minister was weak, with a ...

The White House launched a TikTok account on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned ...

Syria's foreign minister met with an Israeli diplomatic delegation in Paris on Tuesday to discuss "de-escalation and ...