Portugal closed all schools and shuttered non-essential public services on Wednesday as a major Atlantic storm headed for the country's mainland. Streets…
An ocean liner that is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas is headed to a final home on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as the world's…
People suffering from stiff person syndrome (SPS), which affects Celine Dion, the singer, could soon benefit from a new medicine which improves symptoms. …
Portugal will shut schools and non-essential public services on Wednesday, with the government urging people to shelter from winds potentially reaching 140…
Double world champion swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui said Wednesday he wants to become Tunisia's greatest ever Olympian at the Paris Games next year. The 20-year…
A team of scientists have created a “cancer-killing pill” that has appeared to “annihilate” solid tumors, leaving healthy cells unaffected. According to…
A New York man unhappy with the amount of meat and beans filling he received in his Taco Bell pizza, has sued the fast food chain, requesting a recompense of …
In a world first in the fight against smoking, each cigarette sold in Canada will have to come with an individual health warning under new rules that came into…
Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily,…
There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today's blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an…
The "Replace It" campaign in Gaza is distributing bags made of cloth to encourage residents avoid using plastic totes, which can end up in the sea or littering…
Around war-torn Syria's biggest freshwater dam reservoir, fishermen say their catch is now a fraction of what it used to be as environmental pressures have…
Ongoing droughts and an over-exploitation of land for both agriculture and industry have stoked fears in Spain over the creeping spread of "sterile soil" which…
The Australian government on Tuesday welcomed a draft UNESCO decision to a lift a threat of downgrading the Great Barrier Reef to an endangered World Heritage…
The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters on Monday has sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal's…
A French man is believed to have fallen to his death from a high-rise residential building in Hong Kong last week, police said on Monday, with local media…
The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, in cooperation with some non-profit organizations, has distributed 36,000…
The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque said that the venerated Black Stone, the Kaaba, Al-Multazam, and the Yemeni…
Saudi Arabia expressed its appreciation for the accomplishments of the G20 in finding sustainable solutions to environmental challenges and strengthening…
The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) hosted the closing ceremony of the 15th session of the International Children for…
The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon. Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the…
The final meeting of climate and environment ministers from the world's largest economies ended without an agreement or joint statement Friday despite pleas…
Wildfires in Greece abated on Friday after burning for nearly two weeks but emergency services worked to prevent new flare-ups in the central part of the…
The King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Royal Natural Reserve has been accredited by the International Union for Conservation of Nature for meeting international…
Red Sea Global (RSG) - the developer behind two of the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism destinations, The Red Sea and Amaala - successfully opened…
Last Saturday, Mohammed Aslam was working in his kitchen garden when he heard his fellow villagers shouting that water was coming from the nearby foothills in…
The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees (37.8 degrees Celsius) two days in a row. And meteorologists say that…
Nearly 100 pilot whales stranded themselves on a beach in western Australia Tuesday, and about half had died by Wednesday morning, despite the efforts of…