In Nam Hpat Kar in northern Myanmar, a towering golden Buddha statue stands above the wreckage of civil war. Much of the village is now rubble after the central government fired heavy artillery and launched air strikes against rebels in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA),...
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Ukrainian and Spanish intelligence officials confirmed this week that a former Russian pilot, who had defected to Ukraine last year, was found shot dead in southern Spain, a death that came a few days after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison,...
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More than 1,600 trainee doctors in South Korea staged a walkout Tuesday to protest a recent government plan to admit more students to medical schools, a move that has resulted in cancelations of treatments and surgeries in many major hospitals across the country, Reuters reported. The...
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Tourists faced disappointment again on Tuesday as a strike closed the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris over financial mismanagement for the second consecutive day, the Associated Press reported. Eiffel Tower workers, who launched a strike this week over the way the monument is managed financially, want...
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Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, capable of reaching lengths of 110 feet long. Unfortunately, they are also listed as an endangered species as a result of intense commercial whaling over the 20th century. But even as their numbers rebound, there is a blue whale...
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