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After cyclone gales tore down his home in 2007, Bangladeshi fisherman Abdul Aziz packed up what was left of his belongings and moved about half a kilometer inland, further away from storm surge waves.

An experiment by a group of physicists led by University of Rochester physics professor Regina Demina has produced a significant result related to quantum entanglement—an effect that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."

"Tumors that travel to the lungs, or lung metastases, pose a formidable challenge in the realm of cancer treatment. Conventional chemotherapy often falls short because it’s inefficient."

The San José, a Spanish galleon carrying valuable treasure, has been underwater since 1708, when a naval battle led to its sinking off the coast of Colombia. Now, an effort to recover and preserve the ship's artifacts has been set in motion.

Qinling pandas were officially recognized as a subspecies in 2005, but the mystery of their brown fur was only resolved almost two decades later.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered two 16th-century toddler burials with evidence of smallpox, indicating that the foreign illness spread quickly with European contact.

Iquitos, Peru cannot be reached by road because of its surrounding jungles and waters, leading to an unwelcome guest: Mosquitoes.

LUCERNE, Switzerland - Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children is an attempt to steal the country's future and has left the youngsters with deep psychological scars, campaigners from Ukraine said on Saturday as they called for international efforts to bring them home. Read more at straitstimes.com.

‘Abject failure’ of family reunion scheme to provide legal route is leaving children at risk of trafficking or even death

Roy could face grave charges over comments she made 14 years ago about Kashmir under a stringent antiterrorism law.

Government and private initiatives and programmes to address the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean are in fact a vast array of fake solutions, according to a new regional map made by environmental organisations in several of its countries. The map “offers an overview to understand the dynamics and the deceptive...

With some five billion bicycle trips made a year, the Dutch work hard to keep the wheels of pedal progress turning.

The jury awarded plaintiffs $38.3 million in damages saying that Chiquita was liable for killings perpetrated by the AUC–Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia).

A team of 32 firefighters in northern Iraq is battling to put out a massive fire, a day after it broke out at an oil refinery, with more than a dozen of them injured while tackling the blaze, local officials said.

Recent events in the Middle East reveal internal divisions in both the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.

Visa applicants from Africa who want to visit Europe's Schengen Area face far higher rejection rates than people from anywhere else in the world

Mpox, known as monkeypox, is caused by infection with a virus that’s in the same family as the one that causes smallpox

Below-target levels come after record highs in 2020, with some areas in NSW, Queensland and WA now showing consistently lower vaccination rates

Three governments accuse Russia at G7 of ‘spreading lies’ relating to presidential election and EU referendum

The China-Pakistan joint statement issued during the visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is illuminating, both for what it says – and doesn’t say.

In a step forward towards effectuating train travel between Thailand’s Bangkok and China’s Beijing, the Southeast Asian nation will trial rail service between its capital and Laos’ Vientiane on July 13 and 14, according to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT). In a statement, Ekarat Sriarayanphong, an official at the...

The sea turned green amid an algae bloom on a beach in Thailand earlier this month. Nueng Nattakarn and his friends witnessed the discoloured waters during their holiday in Chonburi on 4 June. The phenomenon was expected to last for around a week before the sea turned back to normal, locals said. Algae blooms happen when there...