Home to a dizzying array of endemic flora and fauna, Borneo’s rainforests are among the globe’s most precious. And yet, no other tropical landscape is being lost as fast, with…

Police in Turkey have arrested a member of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) they suspect carried out a bomb attack near an Istanbul police station Thursday. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News…

Interstate highways in the southeast United States were clogged Thursday as close to two million residents in coastal areas of Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina were ordered to evacuate…

Weight and fitness are two full-time American obsessions. An entire industry has sprung up to help solve and make money off the problem. And like any industry there are some…

As record numbers of visitors flock to the new African-American history museum in Washington, another landmark exhibit has opened across the Atlantic, offering a stark and sometimes brutal take on…

A large banner bearing the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the word “peacemaker” was hung from the Manhattan Bridge in New York City on Thursday. The 6-by-9-meter banner…

Michelle Obama would like her legacy to be as well rooted at the White House as that of her president husband. And a big part of that is the White…

President Barack Obama shortened the sentences of 102 federal inmates Thursday, in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. The early release is part of Obama’s…

Six U.S. soldiers and two other men were indicted Thursday on charges of stealing and selling sensitive military equipment to foreign buyers including those from China, Russia and Ukraine. The…

Technically, hurricanes and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon — a circular storm known as a tropical cyclone. Weather experts began using satellite technology in 1970 to accurately measure wind…

Ten-thousand-dollar air-conditioned tents. Morning yoga and Pilates classes. Multi-course meals prepared by gourmet chefs, complete with wine pairings. This sure ain’t Woodstock. The Desert Trip music festival, which kicks off…

Health officials in Haiti on Thursday said they were preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which severely damaged water supplies and sanitation…

U.S. transit safety officials say the commuter train that crashed in New Jersey last week, killing one person and injuring more than 100, was traveling at twice the speed limit…

A shift to the right in Brazil’s municipal elections should help President Michel Temer’s government enact unpopular legislation to curb public spending and avert a budgetary crisis. Temer’s main coalition…

Seven years ago this week, when a young American president learned he’d been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize barely nine months into his first term — arguably before he’d made…

With less than five weeks to go until the presidential election, U.S. officials are taking extra measures to reassure voters of the integrity of the election process, insisting it is…

Scientists using homemade videos featuring a person in a King Kong costume have documented a remarkable cognitive skill shared by chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: the human-like ability to recognize when…

Researchers have discovered the strongest evidence yet linking the Zika virus to the paralytic illness Guillain-Barre syndrome.  During the height of the viral epidemic the incidence of Guillain-Barre was 100…

Four days after Colombians narrowly voted to reject a peace deal with FARC rebels to end 52 years of war, community leader Leyner Palacios is still struggling to contain his…