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The supreme leader isn't concerned about U.S. sanctions and can launch missiles toward whomever, whenever he'd like, North Korean officials said.

Analysis of images beamed back by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko underwent major upheavals as it approached the sun.

Researchers associated with the NEOS collaboration in South Korea announced Tuesday that they had failed to find any trace of the hypothetical particles.

The reading of 11 sieverts per hour is considered to be the highest radiation level detected in the water inside the containment vessel and can kill a human being in 40 minutes of exposure.

The Paris airport attack last weekend has heightened concerns of many travelers, both international and domestic.

According to a new study, the reason there are so few small galaxies is that the universe's ultraviolet background strips smaller galaxies of the gas that forms stars.

Almost 2 billion people currently use a source of drinking water contaminated with feces.

The famous naturalist and broadcaster has had a number of other fossils, animals, plants and even a boat, named after him previously.

The damage, which NASA said was an expected part of the wheel’s life cycle, was discovered during a routine check carried out earlier this month.

A new computer model has finally solved a longstanding cosmic quandary — how did supermassive black holes form in the first billion years of the universe?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother Kim Jong Nam was assassinated in Malaysia on Feb. 13.

The country's top diplomat said Kabul needed additional forces to help the government tackle security threats posed by the Taliban and the Islamic State group.

Results from the latest findings of a study conducted on children at the age of seven found that providing DHA to the baby while it is in the mother's womb does not increase their IQ levels.

To face possible terrorist threat in Crimea, Moscow has launched land, air and sea drills, involving thousands of troops.

The White House announcement comes soon after it was revealed that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will not be attending a NATO meeting next month.

Japanese and South Korean officials are yet to confirm the news of Pyongyang conducting four missile tests.

More than 50 percent of the victims recorded in the data were Irish citizens, which concluded there was inter-generational and ingrained racism against minorities among the country. 

Researchers studied about 4,700 Danish women between the ages of 17 and 49 and their children.

Researchers found that the risk of developing breast cancer was 1.79 times higher among women who ate noodles late after 10 p.m. and 1.58 greater for those who ate rice late at night.

The site at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City was scheduled to open Wednesday.

If famine or a leopard doesn’t kill them first, it’s possible for a chimp to live as long as some humans.

Somalia Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire said Somalia's famine was on the verge of becoming a national disaster at the beginning of March when 110 people died of hunger in the time span of 48 hours.

The majority of the world's most expensive cities are located in Asia, with Singapore topping the list for the fifth year running.

The USS George H.W. Bush passed through the strait that separates Iran from U.S. Arab allies for the first time under the Trump administration.

The Trump administration has avoided several critical human rights events scheduled since the president took office.

A fossil of insects from the time of the dinosaurs shows what a dragonfly romance looked like in prehistoric times.

When a mother leopard and a huge snake face off, there can be only one winner.

Statistics last week showed the U.S. Air Force and other military branches had stepped up the fight against the Islamic State terror group.

Nine airlines operating out of 10 airports will no longer allow any electronics larger than a smartphone on board the plane.