The Colombian president won the award for his “resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end,” the Nobel Committee said.
Airports in states bordering Pakistan and some major cities have been asked to ramp up security amid escalating tensions with Pakistan.
President Rodrigo Duterte has said that the U.S. and EU can withdraw aid if they are unhappy with his campaign against drugs.
Thirty-two rebels were wounded fighting in an operation to push ISIS away from the border area in Syria, Turkey's military said Friday, indicating a fresh surge in clashes.
A team of researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has predicted that the next globe-encircling dust storm on the red planet may begin in the next few weeks.
The reclusive nation may be collecting post-test data, sealing the portal or even preparing for a new nuclear test, according to reports citing new satellite images.
Authorities confirmed that the piece of a wing flap found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in May belonged to the Malaysia Airlines aircraft, which went missing in 2014.
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The storm has caused downed trees and power lines in Nassau.
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Pakistan has continued to deny that “surgical strikes” India claims it carried out last week actually took place.
Young people in more countries than just the United States are still shacking up with their parents.
The Danish Health Ministry presented the medical marijuana bill the same day a Danish couple was arrested for selling weed to cancer patients.
In a plea to German industry advocates, the German Chancellor urged private sector support in negotiations with Britain over the U.K.'s intended exit from the European Union in March.
New data from the Cassini mission confirms that Saturn's moon Dione has a subsurface ocean.
George W. Bush announced that the United States would invade Afghanistan to topple the ruling Taliban on Oct. 7, 2001.
At least 70 suspects were arrested and about 600 more questioned by Mumbai police in connection to a massive tax scam.
A new study details a method to remove a fundamental contamination that distorts our observations of the CMB — the warping of the fabric of space-time.
Using instruments on board the SOFIA observatory, astronomers were able to observe collapsing interstellar clouds on their way to becoming massive stars.
The typhoon caused torrential rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday in the southeastern part of the country and the southern island resort of Jeju.
The vote followed mass demonstrations in which tens of thousands of people came out to the streets protesting the proposal that called for a near-total ban on abortion.
Fearing global isolation, Nawaz Sharif has reportedly issued a warning to the country’s military leadership “not to interfere if law enforcement acts against militant groups.”
Scientists believe that the black hole, named XJ1417+52, may originally have been at the center of a distant galaxy that merged with a larger one.
An opinion poll conducted between Sept. 24 and Sept. 27 showed that only 11 percent of the people surveyed were dissatisfied with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance.
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York concluded that the average maximum human life span has reached an upper limit of close to 115 years.
The accord will enter into force on Nov. 4, but will the actions pledged under it be enough to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperatures?
The army, backed by Shiite militias from Iraq and Lebanon, as well as Russia's air force, began an offensive against eastern Aleppo on Sept. 19 after the collapse of a weeklong truce.
The formal sweep for MH370 is set to end in December unless compelling new evidence is found.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden for creating the world’s smallest machines.
ISIS, which opposes the Assad regime in Syria, has used brutal beheading videos to help recruit supporters and grow its caliphate across Syria and Iraq starting in 2014.