Dire humanitarian conditions in Myanmar and Bangladesh are driving more Rohingya to risk dangerous boat journeys to safety, ...

A mysterious, brown foam appeared on a beach an hour south of Adelaide. It was just the beginning of a toxic algal bloom that ...

D uring the late 1960s, a renowned British scholar undid his whole career by backing a pretty wild claim: According to John ...

Benyamin on why he thinks 'The Second Book of Prophets' is unlike anything he's written before, and translator Ministhy S. on ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday released a statement expressing grave concern over reports that two boats carrying ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned about reports of two boat tragedies off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month, with estimates that 427 Rohingya perished at sea.This would be the ...

Reaching out with his hands and feet he found he was surrounded, encased, by a tube of corroded metal barely wider than his shoulders.

The flood was raised months ago in a distant northern catchment and now it’s here, bursting with the promise of new life, ...

A thrillingly doom-laden series finale, it's the most enveloping "M:I" film since "Ghost Protocol," because something's at ...

Marking my calendar I no longer have the luxury of certainty that I’ll be dead before the end-times. The actuaries give me 14 ...

Unlikely allies Gershon Baskin and Samer Sinijlawi speak as one about peace in the Middle East. Now they see hope in the form ...

All six people on board a small plane are believed to have died when the aircraft crashed in the western US city of San Diego ...