Air quality can put a dent in marathon runners’ finishing time. Finishing times declined as air pollution increased.

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

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

Azerbaijan began a national day of mourning Thursday after a passenger jet from the flag carrier crashed in western Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38 of the 67 people onboard.

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

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

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

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

Asia's stocks rose in thin Boxing Day trade on Thursday, extending a "Santa Rally" with key markets Hong Kong and Sydney ...

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

The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip last month marked a small but significant step ...

A blood sample might hold clues to the presence of early-stage breast cancer ...