The Himalayan region which is home to the world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest, is particularly vulnerable as rising temperatures disturb the balance of snow, ice and water, threatening 1.3 billion people living downstream along Asia's major river basins, the head of a research body says.
If Australia sells uranium to India, it should sell to Pakistan as well, Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Malik Abdullah in Canberra told ABC Radio on Monday.
A small explosion took place in a bus parked near the British embassy in the Bahraini capital today, the interior ministry said in the Gulf state swept by unrest earlier this year.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has shaken Bolivia's interior.
A New Zealand helicopter pilot miraculously escaped injury Wednesday when his chopper crashed spectacularly and broke up while erecting a giant Christmas tree on the Auckland waterfront.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Jan Kubis of Slovakia as his special representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
A woman made a heartbreaking decision to abort one of the 32-week-old boys she was carrying, after doctors said that he had a congenital heart defect, but the the wrong baby was terminated in a botched procedure the hospital called "a terrible tragedy".
Arguing that the UN Security Council is no longer reflective of contemporary reality, India has said this poses the "most important challenge" to global peace and security as well as conflict prevention.
Authorities found at least 20 bodies dumped in three vehicles near a busy intersection in Mexico's second city of Guadalajara, the state prosecutor's office said today.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who, it now turns out, isn’t quite the moderate everyone thought him to be, has been filmed in captivity, still railing at the forces that toppled Dad’s dictatorship.
An Italian-Canadian man considered head of an organized crime group in Montreal was shot dead and his body recovered early Thursday, according to several Quebec media outlets.
Thousands of Australians were trapped on Sunday by rising east coast floodwaters which left one child dead, even as residents in the country's west began returning to their homes after horror wildfires.
An Australian teenager holidaying in Bali was fatally electrocuted by live wires, officials said Sunday, with reports his friends initially thought it was a prank.
Chinese official media today maintained studied silence over postponement of 15th round of Sino-India border talks following reported differences over the Dalai Lama addressing a Buddhist Conference in New Delhi.
Uranium sale to India "would not start automatically" after the Labour government's reversal of a ban against its export to the country, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said today.