In this February 2010 photograph, Indian Dabbawallas, the city's famed cycle-borne tiffin delivery men, participate in the inaugural Tour de Mumbai Cyclothon in Mumbai. Mumbai's famous army of lunchbox delivery men, whose fans include ...

Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to ...

Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision. It worked in a first-stage study ...

Fishermen are helping scour the flooded countryside of Sindh for people marooned in the deluge and now running out of food. More than three weeks after torrential monsoon rains fell over the upper Indus river ...

Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes. The ...

With entire towns and villages swallowed up by Pakistan's devastating floods, experts say it could take years to solve a shelter crisis now facing up to six million people camped out under open skies. The ...

Chip maker Intel Corp said Thursday it agreed to buy security technology firm McAfee Inc for about $7.68 billion in cash in an effort to boost its security offerings. Under the terms of ...

Environmental woes as witnessed in Pakistan's devastating floods threaten the unity of the nation, exacerbating the threat of extremists, a US government report said. The study prepared for US lawmakers warned that Pakistan's ecological problems ...

As Russia battles wildfires triggered by an unprecedented heatwave, flood waters surge across a drenched Pakistan leaving millions of people homeless, and questions are asked about global warming. Extreme weather has been a feature of ...

Fidel Castro strategy to attend a particular session of Cuba's parliament on Saturday, the newest step in the revolutionary's public re-emergence after years spent out of the attention following emergency intestinal surgery. Castro's presence ...