Metro lines and stations have been closed after France's wettest January for more than 100 years.

Lava flows from the crater of Mayon Volcano as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, south of Manila. The Philippines has raised the alert level at its Mayon volcano, prompting authorities to close all schools and urge residents to stay indoors.

In post-coup attempt Turkey, being linked to a secretive messaging app has cost thousands of Turks their jobs, their freedom or worse, writes Nil Köksal.

Thousands of people have been stranded by heavy snowfall at ski resorts in the Alps, with many unable to return home following skiing holidays.  Train lines and roads to Zermatt in Switzerland and St Anton in Austria have been blocked off, and author ...

After a nearly 14-month trial run open only to the Seattle company’s employees, Monday marks the public debut of the store — among Amazon’s boldest efforts to reshape brick-and-mortar shopping.

What started as a conservation effort in the 1990s now puts tourists into the air, soaring alongside geese and cranes.

If you’ve ever lost your car in the parking lot, this bird will put you to shame.

In 1909, two London bookbinders were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the most bedazzling the world had beheld. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic – and how it still influences today.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a new directive that sets new limits on border agents accessing travellers' phones, establishing criteria for when they can demand passwords, conduct extensive searches, like downloading documents stored ...

Residents must limit their showers to one-and-a-half minutes.

A curious bird photobombed Mark Tamayo KTVU's weather report

Birds show remarkable levels of intelligence, something that may have given them the edge following the K-T extinction event

Smoke trails made by an Epsilon rocket are seen during the morning sunrise over Kimotsuki town in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. The Epsilon rocket, carrying the ASNARO-2 radar satellite developed by NEC, was launched from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Cent ...

A fierce storm sweeping across northern Europe kills five people and halts Dutch and German trains.

WE’VE heard of clouds having silver linings, but Northern Territory locals have been treated to the sight of clouds with a stunning rainbow lining.

A group of divers has found a connection between two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.

Thunderous boom shakes homes across metro Detroit

Glowing-red lava spurted in a fountain and flowed down the Philippines' most active volcano on Tuesday in a stunning display of its fury that has sent more than 34,000 villagers fleeing to safety and prompted police to set up checkpoints to stop ...

There's not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There's an iridescent dinosaur.

Clarence Jones, the galvanizing lawyer who was Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted lieutenant between 1960 and 1968, has come out from the shadows of civil-rights history. In 2006, he shared his untold tale with Douglas Brinkley: the secret missions, th ...