WORLD

The campaign was started after Rio organizers said just 12 percent of available tickets had been sold for the Rio Paralympics 2016, which is set to begin Sept. 7.

President Barack Obama was the latest addition to the ever growing list of high-profile people Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has insulted.

Both Earth and the moon were seen crossing the face of the sun simultaneously by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory that orbits the planet.

A new study argues that all carbon in Earth’s mantle may have been brought here by a collision with a Mercury-like protoplanet 4.4 billion years ago.

The South China Sea region has been claimed by several countries — most assertively by China — triggering tension in the area.

By 2080, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct. Now, researchers have argued that this estimate may be too optimistic.

The Philippines, along with Japan and other countries, is locked in maritime territorial disputes with China.

Barack Obama, on the sidelines of a summit in Laos, also said bigger countries should not dictate to smaller ones, likely referring to China.

Over the past 40 years, driven by warming seas, typhoons in the northwest Pacific have intensified by 12 to 15 percent on average, according to a new study.

A study found that whole brain radiotherapy has no substantial benefits on the length or quality of life of lung cancer patients in whom the cancer had spread to the brain.

The North Korean leader’s comments come a day after South Korea said that the reclusive nation fired three ballistic missiles into the East Sea.

With no new credible clues on the plane's whereabouts, authorities have decided to suspend the search operation by December.

The Philippine president had called Barack Obama a “son of a whore” during a press conference Monday, leading to a meeting between the two leaders being cancelled.

Scientists discovered, for the first time, the presence of “abundant” quantities of toxic nanoparticles linked to Alzheimer’s, derived from air pollution, in the human brain.

The European Space Agency lander, which touched down on the comet 67P in 2014, was discovered by the Rosetta spacecraft’s high-resolution OSIRIS camera.

The attacks highlight the precarious security climate in the capital just a month before a Brussels conference of international donors.

Check-in systems of the airline went down Monday evening and, after many hours of disruption at airports around the world, are slowly coming back online.

The protest was called by some leaders in the state’s powerful Arakan National Party, which has criticized the panel, insisting that foreigners cannot understand the history of the area.

Barack Obama was set to hold his first meeting with Rodrigo Duterte, but cancelled after the Filipino president lobbed an insult at him in front of reporters.

The new images, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, provide a macroscopic picture of how solar wind forms and evolves.

Both Beijing and Manila have competing claims over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea near the coast of the Philippines.

China’s comments were in response to questions whether it intentionally failed to provide Obama’s plane with a staircase, an event that has fueled speculation it was a diplomatic snub.

The recommendation casts a pall over Nicolas Sarkozy’s bid to become president again in a contest scheduled for next April.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, all of which took place between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. local time and killed several people, according to state media and a monitor.

The summit in Hangzhou, China, came at a time when doubts are being raised about the benefits of an open world economy.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were unable to strike a deal for a ceasefire in Syria and differences remain, a senior official said Monday.

Although conservation efforts led by the Chinese government have led to a rebound in the giant panda population in recent years, climate change still threatens to reverse the gains.

Several pro-independence candidates won seats in Hong Kong’s legislative election on Sunday, results likely to further strain ties with Communist Party rulers in Beijing.

The three missiles were fired into the East Sea just hours after the South Korean president and her Chinese counterpart concluded a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in China.