Avaneesh Pandey

A kilogram of rhino horn reportedly sells for up to $100,000 in Vietnam, which is almost double the price of gold.

Francois Hollande's visit marks the first by a French leader to the communist nation in over a century.

Before its planned demise last week, NASA's Messenger gathered crucial data that is now helping scientists shed light on the planet's past.

The World Health Organization has issued guidelines aimed at avoiding new disease names associated with places, people and animals.

A former employee of the U.S. Energy Department was indicted on charges of attempting to sell sensitive information on nuclear weapons to a foreign country.

Every year, thousands of migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African nations, risk their lives attempting to cross into Ceuta and Melilla.

A new study suggests that eruption of water vapor on the surface of Saturn's moon might be in the form of broad, curtain-like sheets.

David Cameron and his Conservative Party won a shock majority in the U.K. general elections.

The Australian prime minister's chief business adviser said the U.N. is using "environmental catastrophism" to undermine capitalism and freedom.

In Kathmandu, nine out of 10 surviving school buildings are being used as emergency shelters.

After a gap of over two years, proton collisions resumed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

Hezbollah's leader said his group would act against the "unacceptable threat" Lebanon faces from Syrian rebels.

Information about four ISIS members is being sought under the State Department's Rewards For Justice Program.

Although the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, experts questioned the group's role.

The Save the Children group has claimed that nearly 40 migrants have died in the sea between Libya and Sicily.

Diabetics, who are overweight, but not obese, are likely to live longer than their normal and underweight counterparts.

Climate experts have long proposed limiting temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

A new report has blamed the Israeli army's "policy of indiscriminate fire" for the deaths of Palestinian civilians in last year's war in Gaza.

The pulsar, PSR J1930-1852, discovered by a team of high-school students in 2012, is part of an extremely rare binary system.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has accused the Pentagon of failing to disclose the actual extent of sexual assault in the U.S. military.

Many have called the Indian media's coverage of the disaster a "public relations exercise" on behalf of the Indian government.

The country's army has been accused of avenging the deaths of its soldiers by killing civilians.

Militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang are believed to be behind the attack.

The latest photos, taken by New Horizons' telescopic imager, show bright and dark features on the dwarf planet's surface.

A study by a Washington-based nonprofit found that one in every five Indian men admitted to forcing their wives to have sex.

On April 30, 1975, Communist forces captured Saigon -- now known as Ho Chi Minh City -- marking the end of the Vietnam War.

Efforts to provide aid to the country's far-flung regions have been hampered by bad weather and poor road infrastructure.

Nepal's government is struggling to cope with rescue and relief efforts while the death toll from Saturday's quake continues to mount. Protesters have taken to the streets.

The use of automated ground-based telescopes could drastically speed up the search for small extra-solar planets.