A sherpa who was missing for a week on Mount Everest has been found alive by a cleaning crew on the tallest mountain. The ...

For almost three decades, the T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo band was cranking out hit after hit in West Africa. Its members were ...

Kenya is a powerhouse when it comes to geothermal energy. The country generates about half of its electricity by harnessing ...

This Fourth of July marks 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Although a defining moment for the ...

Today marks 37 years since Chinese troops opened fire on peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square. For three decades after the ...

Today marks 37 years since Chinese troops opened fire on peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square. But in Hong Kong, even ...

The Iranian author Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56. She was famous for her graphic novel “Persepolis,” which ...

The US, Canada and Australia all have sports they call football, and they’re not “the beautiful game” that’s soon to get ...

The ongoing bloodshed between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon almost hit a pause, when the two sides announced a ceasefire ...

It was the era of Charlie’s Angels, and a young Palestinian American girl living in Maryland struggled to fit in among a ...

Over the weekend, Japan’s crown prince and others released eight crested ibises in north-central Japan. It was the first time ...

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Norway, six months after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize ...