Australian health authorities have again urged pregnant women not to undertake international travel after a pregnant woman in Queensland state became infected with the Zika virus, local media reported Thursday.
As the U.S. election season begins, only four in 10 Americans rate the situation in the U.S. as positive, which is well below the historical average, a Gallup poll released Wednesday found.
Illegal drugs valued at 1.5 million NZ dollars (957,000 U.S. dollars) were found hidden inside two neck pillows carried by a man travelling from Hong Kong to Wellington, New Zealand Customs officers said Wednesday.
South Korean health authorities declared an official end to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, more than seven months after the first patient was found on May 20.
Beijing is getting tough with those who violate traffic restrictions and production suspension after the first-ever red alert for smog was issued on Monday.
Australian scientists said on Thursday that they have found crocodiles sleep with one eye open to monitor their surroundings even though they're still asleep. The researchers from Melbourne's La Trobe University, with the help of the German colleagues, captured three saltwater crocodiles to conduct the tests, and the results were published in the Journal of Experimental Biology on Thursday.
Archaeologists have discovered details which could confirm a shipwreck found in the Yellow Sea to be the cruiser Zhiyuan, sunk by the Japanese navy 121 years ago during the Sino-Japanese War.
Molting elephant seals might contribute significant amounts of toxic mercury to coastal ecosystems, according to a study published Monday that looked at a California elephant seal rookery.
Some 50 migrants have been found dead in the hold of a craft off the Libyan coast, the Italian coast guard said Wednesday.
Eight people, including five children and three adults, were found dead inside a home in the U. S. city of Houston late Saturday and a suspect is now charged with multiple counts of capital murder, local media reported on Sunday.
Malaysian authorities have confirmed the recently discovered debris belonged to the missing Malaysian MH370 flight, kindling hopes the mystery around the flight be finally brought into light.
The investigators and experts participating in the identification of the probable missing MH370 wreckage arrived Wednesday afternoon in a military laboratory in Toulouse, according to Xinhua journalists on site.
The plane wreckage found on the Reunion Island will be transferred to Toulouse to be analysed by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA), reported Thursday the newspaper Le Figaro.
A small Lithuanian plane which went missing on Saturday was found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea Tuesday afternoon.
Hundreds of decomposed corpses were found in mass graves in a border community in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, seized by Boko Haram last year, an official said late Monday.
Job vacancies for Australian university graduates in 2014 have hit the lowest point in more than 20 years, a new survey released on Wednesday shows.
Giant African snails happily munch on vegetables in south China, one bite from a red fire ant from Latin America causes humans to slip in to a coma and the ecosystem in northwest China is under threat from invasive trees from Central Asia.
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