Finalists in one of photojournalism's most prestigious awards competition came away with far more than pictures while covering the fight for Iraq's Mosul, the longest urban battle since Stalingrad.
Russia's Vostochny cosmodrome, where President Vladimir Putin hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday, has become a symbol of lingering problems in Moscow's space sector: from lengthy delays to rampant corruption.
The United Nations on Wednesday released a landmark report detailing serious human rights abuses by China against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Protesters armed with little more than parasols and determination have brought central Hong Kong to a standstill with their demands for full democracy, in a…
For the first time a senior Saudi official has spoken out publicly before a Western audience on the tensions between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and…
U.S. President George W. Bush's splurge is already bringing premature claims of success, even though the first troops are just arriving in Iraq.
Russian space agency spokesman Sergei Gorbunov has told the Reuters news agency that MirCorp was jumping the gun in announcing any plans for a space hotel.
New findings provide evidence that Earth's most severe mass extinction -- an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of the life on Earth -- was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid.
"What I'm really looking for," you say to the salesman, "is a car that goes at least 10,000 miles between fill-ups, repairs itself…
A supply ship towing a long floating boom designed to corral ocean plastic has set sail from San Francisco for a test run ahead of a trip to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Oilfield services, shipbuilders and other industries that rose with the pre-2014 oil price boom have had it hard.
The Maldives, which faces the gloomy prospect of drowning this century due to rising sea levels, is now confronted with a more immediate challenge of saving a sinking economy.
The Lunar Orbiter program was one of the most successful mission series ever flown.
Nearly five years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has not won the "global war on terror," nor even brought its chief antagonist to justice.
It may be hard to imagine that the dark night sky is a profound astronomical observation.
Shortly after the recent outbreak of violence in Lebanon and Israel, Newt Gingrich made headlines by proposing that existing threats against American interests throughout the world constitute the early stages of World War III.
