A native Appalachian evergreen is being restored to the ecosystem through a multi-year project to plant 10,000 red spruce ...

South Korea's opposition said Thursday it filed an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, in an escalating ...

Tearful mourners prayed Thursday as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor ...

A former North Carolina Poet Laureate and Haywood County native will be immortalized outside the Canton branch of the Haywood ...

Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, ...

Santa Pals clothed more than 400 children and provided more than 400 meals earlier this month as part of its second year of ...

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...

With Nepal's snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the ...

Beside India's holy rivers, a makeshift city is being built for a Hindu religious festival expected to be so vast it will be ...