Portugal's Algarve tourist region was the latest to be hit by violent forest fires Thursday, prompting the evacuation of a luxury hotel and three hamlets, officials said.
Hundreds of firefighters battled fresh wildfires in Portugal and Spain on Saturday, civil protection authorities said, following a summer of devastating blazes in the region.
Hundreds of firefighters endured triple-digit temperatures Thursday battling against a wildfire along a major highway, as the western United States bakes under a fearsome heat dome.
A massive fire that has scorched through more than a third of Namibia's best-known national park has been contained, the environment minister said Monday.
On the front lines of global warming, evacuees from Lytton, a western Canadian village destroyed by wildfires in June, are detached and bitter about the upcoming September 20 snap elections.
At least six people have been killed in southern Nepal in rampages by wild elephants in the last two days, police said Saturday.
Devastating wildfires laid waste to miles of land around California's scenic wine country, reducing hundreds of homes and businesses to smoldering ruins and leaving one person feared dead.
Wild animals including bears, wolves and jackals are on the increase in Switzerland, a government agency said Friday, as it reported a spike in the figures across the country.
The co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, on Tuesday slammed whistleblower WikiLeaks over its release of Afghan war documents which he said…
The wife of a Taiwanese rights activist being held in China flew to the mainland Sunday on the eve of his trial in a case that has further soured cross-strait relations.
Liu Xia, the widow of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who died in detention in July, is back in Beijing but still under house arrest, a Hong Kong NGO said Sunday.
Widespread corruption throughout Iraq's government has hampered development, resulting in slow improvement of public services, the International Crisis Group said in a report published on Monday.
Checking out an electric vehicle made by China's BYD at the Munich auto show, German designer Tayo Osobu was impressed by the interior and said she would consider buying one.
A series of deadly explosions targeting Hezbollah members this week in Lebanon came only days after Israel announced plans to expand its war in Gaza to its northern border with Lebanon.
Denmark's support for Ukraine, its lack of anti-drone defences and this week's EU summit in Copenhagen could all explain the unidentified drone sightings over Danish airspace that have been widely blamed on Russia.
Protests over a decades-old water-sharing treaty have shaken northern Mexico, where farmers seized a dam to try to prevent the country from supplying the neighboring United States.
