The 38-year-old doctoral student at Princeton was studying social political movements in Iraq when she was taken to a torture ...

Poachers typically plant bamboo poles at intervals in soft sand, with nets stretched across them to trap low flying birds.

Russia’s security service has claimed it foiled a plot by Ukraine to assassinate a high-ranking Kremlin official inside ...

Travellers will have to change about 20 times to compete the 11,654 mile long journey, that takes them across 13 countries ...

The major explosion in eastern Russia derailed a freight train on the Trans-Siberian railway, disrupting one of Moscow's ...

For more than a century, forced relocations have marked some of the most troubling chapters of Russian and Soviet governance.

Russia's chief negotiator at the UN climate talks in Brazil, Vladimir Uskov, told AFP that the world still needs fossil fuels and criticized Western nations for breaking promises on climate finance.

For Argentines, it was just the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration. But for a Russian gay couple joining this month’s ...

Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully ...