A small group of scholars, students and local residents of Shanghai are standing up to save their dialect,Shanghainese, which traces its roots to one of China's oldest spoken languages, from extinction.

Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the

Investigation puts British government under spotlight for allowing members of former Egyptian dictatorship to retain assets in UK

China's banks are coming after the country's steel traders, hauling executives into court to chase down loans that some traders said they didn't initially need and can't now repay.

Paul Watson, the fugitive head of the international marine activism group Sea Shepherd who is wanted by police on three continents, plans to avoid arrest by staying at sea as long as possible.

Of the 1.9 crore adults who enrolled for the government’s adult literacy programme, Saakshar Bharat, since 2009, an overwhelming 72% were women.

Scientists say this year’s record declines in Arctic sea ice extent and volume are powerful evidence that the giant cap of ice at the top of the planet is on a trajectory to largely disappear in summer within a decade or two, with profound global consequences.

Village of 80 people was firebombed from the air, say activists, by illegal gold miners based in neighbouring Brazil

A coral species that is found in abundance from Indonesia eastward to Fiji, Samoa, and the Line Islands rarely crosses the Eastern Pacific Barrier toward the coast of the Americas...

An unusual swarm of hundreds of mostly small earthquakes has struck Southern California over the last three days and shaken the nerves of quake-hardy residents, but scientists say