Brazil will sue mining company Samarco $5.2 billion for the environmental damage caused after a waste water dam at an…
A Gulag museum has been opened in Moscow on October 30, the Russian authorities have announced. The museum is dedicated…
North Korea has returned the remains of an American soldier missing since the Korean War to his family in California.…
The Vatican has strongly denied an Italian media reports that Pope Francis has a small but curable tumor on his…
The first ever canonization of a married couple will be conducted by Pope Francis in a ceremony in Saint Peter's…
The New Horizons probe has captured the first color image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Japanese Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Arthur B. McDonald "for the…
NASA scientists think they can now tie dark streaks seen on the surface of Mars to periodic flows of liquid…
NASA officials are set to reveal a major science finding about Mars during a news conference in Washington DC on…
Skywatchers around the world have observed a rare celestial event, as a lunar eclipse coincides with a so-called "supermoon". A…
Skywatchers around the world are gearing up to spot a rare phenomenon, as a lunar eclipse coincides with a supermoon.…
NASA has announced it will reveal a major scientific discovery related to their continued exploration of Mars. The findings will…
A rare combination of a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse is set to occur at 02:11 GMT on Monday,…
Russia has reopened the 1918 murder case of Tsar Nicolas II and his family, the Romanovs. The bones of Russia’s…
In his first speech after his arrival in Cuba, Pope Francis has called for the Church in the communist island…
California has dropped plans to cut gasoline use in half by 2030, after intense oil industry lobbying. Governor Jerry Brown…
A new human-like species have been discovered in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa, BBC…
Vatican is going to make it easier for Roman Catholics to get annulments and remarry within the Church, Pope Francis’…
According to the United Nations, a satellite image confirms that Palmyra’s Temple of Bel in northern Syria has been destroyed.…
Scottish scientists have developed a new ingredient that could prevent ice cream melting in hot weather. A naturally occurring protein…
Argentina has announced it will return more than 4,000 archaeological artifacts to Peru and Ecuador. The artifacts had been stolen…
Japan is marking 70 years since the end of World War Two with commemoration ceremonies across the country. The Asian…
Nagasaki has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing attack on Sunday, August 9. Speeches at the ceremony criticized…
University of Essex in the UK is in "exploratory discussions" to build the world's deepest swimming pool for spaceflight and…