Avaneesh Pandey

According to a report by the United Nations and its partner agencies, over a third of the country's population is facing either severe or moderate food insecurity.

Fifteen partial skeletons, composed of 1,550 distinct specimens, discovered in a hard-to-reach network of caves in South Africa, are challenging our current understanding of human evolution.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 17,400 new jobs -- three times the number predicted -- were created in August.

The Hinxton Group, an international group of scientists and policy experts, said the technology has tremendous value to basic research.

The U.S. ratings agency Standard & Poor’s revoked the investment-grade rating awarded to the country in 2008.

India's benchmark stock index closed at its lowest level in 15 months, while the Indian rupee hit a two-year low against the U.S. dollar.

EGS8p7, an "unusually luminous" galaxy, is believed to have burst into existence approximately 13.2 billion years ago.

The European country is expecting a record influx of as many as 800,000 refugees this year.

Netanyahu said the country lacked the “demographic and geographic depth” to house Syrian refugees.

In a surprise move, China on Monday revised its 2014 GDP growth figure to 7.3 percent, down from 7.4 percent.

The Francois Hollande-led government is reportedly expected make an announcement on the possible targeting of the Islamic State group Monday.

Earlier this year, more than 120,000 saiga antelopes dropped dead, wiping off nearly half of the species' global population.

Scientists believe that the "primordial soup" of high temperature quark-gluon plasma came into existence -- and vanished -- a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang.

After analyzing over a thousand studies in more than 1,500 locations worldwide, scientists discovered that the faster you add prey to an ecosystem, the slower predators’ numbers grow.

The Russian leader, a close ally of Bashar Assad, says the Syrian president is ready to permit a "healthy" opposition to take part in elections.

Reports suggest that the U.S. and the EU have agreed to contentious provisions seeking to address weather-linked loss and damage in poor nations.

European stocks followed Asian shares into the red Friday, before the release of U.S. employment numbers and amid uncertainty over the Federal Reserve's next move.

The American tech giant announced a 10-year collaboration with two Dutch institutions.

Investors worldwide await the release of a key U.S. jobs report, whose findings might portend a rate hike by the Federal Reserve later this month.

A new study has revealed that the Higgs boson adheres to the predictions of the standard model of particle physics, which encapsulates our best understanding of how subatomic particles interact.

Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, 82, is the first Tamil lawmaker to head the opposition in over three decades.

Asian shares posted modest gains while Europe rallied after the region's service sector grew to a 4-year high.

The International Monetary Fund warned of increasing downside risks to the world economy because of volatility in stock markets and plunging commodity prices.

Refugees aspiring to seek asylum in countries like Germany have camped out in front of Budapest's Keleti train station since Tuesday.

Within the economic bloc, however, wide disparities persist with Germany showing an unemployment rate of 4.7 percent while Greece reported one in four people without a job.

According to a U.N. estimate, more than two-thirds, or 68 percent, of people facing food crisis and emergency are internally displaced.

The country's benchmark index fell nearly 700 points, or 2.5 percent, Tuesday after first-quarter growth slowed to 7 percent.

The RBA's decision came as the Australian dollar continues to hover around its weakest level in over six years.

After completing a historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto last month, the New Horizons spacecraft is now headed to the dark and icy Kuiper Belt.