Australian archaeologists believe they have found the oldest man-made ground-edge axe in history, providing proof that humankind developed this kind of tool up to 10,000 years before first thought.
The Supreme Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday sentenced a South Korea-born U.S. citizen to 10 years of hard labor for alleged subversion and espionage activities.
A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness for one of nature's most elusive beasts has found a "monster" - but not the one it was looking for.
A Cambodian court on Tuesday charged opposition lawmaker Um Sam An with two counts -- inciting discrimination and inciting chaos to social security -- which carry a maximum prison term of five years, a defense lawyer said.
World-renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday teamed up with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a 100-million-U.S.-dollar effort to make tiny spaceships capable of interstellar space travel.
Egypt's hard-currency crisis and competition from modern factories in Asia and at home threaten one of the last dyeing workshops in Egypt but one of its owners takes comfort in the trade's ancient resilience.
To cope with increasing pressure from a graying population, the Chinese government is setting a timetable for postponing the retirement age, while many local civil servants are experimenting with a different path.
April 1, 2016 marks the 13th anniversary of the death of Canto-pop singer and movie star Leslie Cheung.
More than a quarter of all living Australians were born overseas -- the highest proportion in more than 120 years -- according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday.
More Australians than ever before are considering working until the "retirement age"
Five years after massive anti-government protests across Syria, the country is still mired in a prolonged civil war that could trace its origin to the intervention by the U.S.-led West.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has recruited about 12,300 civil servants at grassroots level in the past six years, said local authorities on Wednesday.
This is the second and final installment of a two-part series.The impact of the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to introduce a negative interest rate policy will likely extend to people with housing loans, with already-low interest rates nudged down even further.
When American households still have vivid memories of struggling to make their ends meet in the worst financial crisis in decades, a new recession is seemingly around the corner.
Researchers have found that bushfires in the Australian state of Tasmania are occurring more frequently than at any time in the past 1,000 years, and humankind is to blame.
A very possible recession within the next three years would take place in the United States, economists warned Saturday at a meeting of U.S. governors.
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