Avaneesh Pandey

U.S. President Barack Obama had urged Iran to commit to freezing, or even rolling back, its nuclear program for at least a decade.

Between 2007 and 2010, Syria witnessed one of the worst droughts in recorded history -- an event that triggered massive poverty and unrest.

The black hole, which is 12 billion times the mass of the Sun, was formed less than 900 million years after the Big Bang.

Deep Q-Network is the first computer program capable of teaching itself to succeed at a wide variety of tasks through trial and error.

Ali Abdullah Saleh allegedly pocketed nearly $2 billion every year through extortion and embezzlement.

Morgan Stanley is the latest bank, after Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, to shell out a fine for its role in the 2008 crisis.

Using data gathered by NASA’s CALIPSO satellite, scientists found that every year, 27 million tons of Saharan dust reaches the Amazon.

The number of displaced people across the globe topped 50 million for the first time since the end of World War II, Amnesty said in a report.

If confirmed, Katherine Simonds Dhanani would lead the U.S. mission to Somalia, which is based at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

The accident happened on the second day of the annual carnival when a live wire fell on a packed float.

Under the ceasefire agreement, the two warring sides were due to begin pulling back heavy weapons on Tuesday.

The plume, observed over the surface of Mars in 2012, has challenged our current understanding of the red planet's atmosphere.

Both the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil separatist group LTTE stand accused of war crimes committed during the three-decade conflict.

The Wall Street Journal had earlier reported that the Ayatollah Khamenei had, in "recent weeks," sent a secret letter to Barack Obama.

Usman Saifullah Kurd, affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, had allegedly masterminded January's attack on a Shia mosque in the Sindh province.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider, shut down in 2013 for repairs and upgrades, will recommence operation in March.

A new report by Kaspersky Lab reveals that the attacks, which are still ongoing, have so far targeted banks across Russia, Europe and the U.S.

Genetically altered to resist browning, the apples were developed by the Canadian company Okanagan Specialty Fruits.

Christopher Nolan's Oscar nominated movie, released in November, was lauded for its scientifically accurate depiction of a spinning black hole.

Nearly 200 pilot whales had beached themselves on the shores of New Zealand's South Island on Friday.

The president is also expected to sign an executive order directing the government and companies to increase information sharing.

The attack follows a similar one on a Shia congregation hall in the Shikarpur district two weeks ago, in which over 60 people were killed.

The fighting between government troops and ethnic rebels erupted in the Shan State, which borders China.

Although such systems are believed to be quite common in our universe, this is the first time astronomers have spotted one during its birth.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari claimed the Iraqi army has made significant advances against ISIS in recent weeks.

According to the latest Press Freedom Index, the U.S. also witnessed attempts to control journalists amid an ongoing "war on information."

The Australian Human Rights Commission says over a third of immigrant children detained by the country suffer from serious mental disorders.

The inner core, believed to be a solid mass of an iron-nickel alloy, might have its own separate "inner" inner core.

In a BBC interview, the Syrian president ruled out cooperating with the U.S. and its allies, which are conducting anti-ISIS airstrikes.