Mass stranding kills whales
Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in a mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other unrelated strandings.
Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in a mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other unrelated strandings.
For the first time in more than a decade, a train has travelled from South Korea across the heavily guarded border into North Korea.
China assigns civil servants to stay in the homes of ethnic minorities in what it portrays as an effort to promote ethnic unity but what Uighurs regard as another attempt to quash their faith.
Spider milk containing four times the protein of cow’s milk is secreted by mothers, scientists in China find
A 9,000-year-old stone mask – one of only 15 in the world – has been revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
Tokyo will upgrade helicopter carriers, a move critics say violates constitutional commitment to defensive role
The year 2018 is on course to be the fourth warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Georgian election officials say a French-born former foreign minister has won a presidential runoff, marking the last time citizens of the ex-Soviet nation elected their head of state by popular vote.
Radical overhaul in farming and consumption, with less meat eating, needed to avoid hunger and climate catastrophe
Argentine authorities say that Buenos Aires will be an armored city when world leaders arrive for this week’s G-20 summit.