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The Netherlands and Denmark are leading a plan to train Ukrainian pilots on using the US-made aircraft as part of an 11-nation coalition.

In the run-up to Monday’s attack on Russia’s road and rail bridge to Crimea, state TV broadcast footage of long traffic jams in southern Russia as tourists waited in their cars for hours to cross over to start their summer holidays.

It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century, but it may be three times larger.

After the hottest seven-day run of average temperatures ever, climate change experts have warned an unwanted record is likely to be broken.

And the news media is once again failing to connect the dots.

Earth draws parallels between human impact on climate and volcanic eruptions that ripped through planet’s crust 250 million years ago

Researchers have found an intensely hot exoplanet with metallic clouds that rain titanium. The strange world, rather prosaically known as LTT9779b, is the brightest planet discovered outside the solar system.

In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt.

Charity calls on government to do more to restrict unhealthy lifestyle choices

In California, many people are keeping an eye on Death Valley this weekend.

China accused the United States of “ganging up” and forcing it to accept a 2016 arbitration ruling over claims in the South China Sea, as Washington urged Beijing to halt what it called its routine harassment of vessels of other countries in the region.

Two weeks after Quran burning in front of Stockholm mosque, police grant permission to a local activist to burn a copy of Hebrew Bible; Israeli officials sharply condemn ‘blatant incitement’

Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers.

Nearly 90 million Americans are facing heat alerts this week, yet GOP members are wrangling over spending to reduce emissions

The tactic may have been introduced by veterans of separatist conflict in Chechnya.

As the race to find new ways of sequestering carbon dioxide from trees intensifies, Wollongong City Council – with the help of students from Dapto High School – is spearheading the creation of tiny forests.

Riikka Purra, who leads the nationalist Finns party, was the second member of her faction to come under fire for offensive comments since the government was formed a month ago.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has launched a recruitment campaign targeting women for roles as doctors, nurses and cooks in the military, with possible deployment in occupied Ukraine, independent media reported Thursday. “Sign a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry in the same ranks as men,” read an advertisement in the...

A report suggests they are using sharp metal deterrents like humans do - to keep pests away.