Insurgents on Thursday fired a rocket near the venue of a major meeting in the Afghan capital Kabul discussing the controversial presence of US troops after NATO combat forces leave in 2014.

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“Dirty Dozen” chemicals, including the notoriously toxic DDT, are being freed from Arctic Sea ice and snow through global warming, a study published on Sunday suggested.

Astronomers using Nasa’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a tiny fourth moon around Pluto, the smallest ever glimpsed around the icy dwarf planet, the US space agency said Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of Spanish protesters furious over soaring unemployment kept up their week-long movement on the eve of Sunday's local elections expected to hand the ruling Socialists a crushing defe

US software giant Microsoft is near to clinching a deal to buy Internet telephony pioneer Skype for $7-8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The newspaper cited unnamed people famili

International scientists have discovered a chemical reaction that has caused the once-vivid yellows in Vincent van Gogh’s paintings to turn brown, according to a study published on Monday in the Unite

Authors from India, China and Japan swept the shortlist for Asia’s top literary prize on Tuesday, with a debut novelist and Nobel Prize winner among those vying for the $30,000 award.

Troubled US actor Charlie Sheen was rushed to hospital on Thursday with severe abdominal pains, his spokesman said after a reported “wild” party at his home outside Los Angeles.

Davos, Switzerland: Without the euro, Europe would have been plunged into a 'terrible crisis', political and economic elites gathered in Davos heard on Thursday, as the EU grapples with its ongoing de