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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...