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The move makes Canada the first North American country to join the Chinese-led organization that counts 57 countries and is seen as the Asian counterweight to the World Bank.

Why Nigeria's economy has seen a decline in growth.

A farmer who found himself short 500 cows recently in New Zealand is now claiming he was robbed.

MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board as it was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Mexico's homicide rate reached 2,073 killings in July.

Scientists have found that the Tasmanian devil had somehow developed resistance to a cancer that researchers previously believed would wipe the species off the planet.

The controversial move, whose efficacy has been questioned by several conservation groups, is aimed at discouraging poaching.

Researchers associated with the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey have created a “photo album” of over 70,000 galaxies spanning 12 billion years of cosmic history.

About 20,000 people are throwing more than 330,000 pounds of the red, juicy fruit in the town of Buñol, Valencia, in a tradition that dates back over 70 years.

A new study has found that even if poaching is curbed with immediate effect, it would take almost a century for the forest elephant population to bounce back.

Police have reported a jump in hate crime in Britain after the country voted to leave the European Union in June, following a campaign that critics said stoked xenophobia and racism.

The latest findings are expected to help scientists better understand the origin and mode of evolution of these flying reptiles that existed millions of years ago.

Two other senior North Korean officials have been banished to rural areas for “revolutionary reeducation,” Seoul said Wednesday.

Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation.

A couple has been banned from mountaineering after faking a Mount Everest climb.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated that bare breasts were more French than a headscarf.

Climate change could cut coffee production across the globe in half, according to a new study.

A dog in Bolivia is lucky to be alive after he nearly got ran over by a race car.

Adnani was the spokesman for ISIS.

A surfer was attacked this weekend by a shark on Reunion Island, losing an arm and a foot.

More than $25,000 has been raised to purchase tickets for thousands of Brazilian children to attend the games from Sept. 7-18.

Merkel said as long as pro-Russian fighters in Ukraine keep the peace, she is prepared to ask the European Union to immediately lift energy, financial and defense sanctions sanctions against Russia.

Houston businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis has been detained in China since March last year.

The massive star, located 12,000 light-years from Earth, simultaneously exhibits traits that have only ever been observed in extremely old stars, and some that are only associated with protostars.

The location and orbits of several newly-discovered trans-Neptunian objects make the existence of a ninth “Planet X” all the more likely, a new study says.

The country allotted a defense budget of more than $36 billion for 2017 to build a homegrown anti-missile system to deal with growing North Korean threats.

A U.N. official told a news conference in capital Sanaa that the new figure was based on official information from medical facilities in Yemen.

A new study states that the discrepancy between our galaxy’s observed and real mass can be explained by events that took place 6 million years ago.

While heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, the number of drugs in development to combat the illness has reduced in the last 20 years, a study found.