Even with fewer European visitors, the U.S. set a record for overseas arrivals in 2012, thanks to travelers from Asia and Latin America.
A Chinese firm has won rights to build an alternative to the Panama Canal in Nicaragua.
Outraged by photos of abused miners that surfaced online, Chinese netizens are dissatisfied with the government’s passive reaction.
China’s food imports and agribusiness will jump over the next decade pressuring global business, resources and the environment, a report says.
None of the injuries sustained in the Nyack College explosion were considered life-threatening.
The protests started when the Turkish government announced plans to demolish Gezi Park, one of the last remaining green spaces in Istanbul.
"After Earth" was a bomb at the box office this weekend, but was it also propaganda for Scientology?
"After Earth" is expected to fall just short at the box office with "Fast 6" projected to reign as champion.
As Africa emerges as "the 21st century continent," experts say its future rests on big ideas, entrepreneurship and local ownership.
Tuition fees and living costs for international students in Australia have soared by 166 percent over the past decade.
Europe may look like a disaster, but it's also home to some businesses that have success written all over them.
Africa-based U.S. troops are relying on the Chinese Apstar-7 satellite to communicate and share information.
Kimura is not only the oldest person in the world; he is also believed to be the longest-lived human being in recorded history.
To go or not to go? These controversial tourist attractions put many ethical travelers in a quandary.
Sea ice in the Arctic has become as extensive as it's going to get this year -- and it's the sixth-lowest maximum on record.
Mexico travel to face Honduras in Friday’s World Cup qualifier in San Pedro Sula.
In 2013, Earth Hour events will take place in more than 7,000 cities/towns across 152 countries and territories on all continents.
A Mars solar conjunction happens about once every 26 months, so this isn't NASA's first rodeo.
What could be done if a huge asteroid is heading towards New York City in three weeks? Answer is: “Pray,” says NASA chief.
A new sinkhole has opened up behind a house in Seffner, Fla., the same town where a man was swallowed by a sinkhole last week.
Before a Florida sinkhole swallowed a sleeping Jeff Bush in bed late Thursday night, he might never have known he was laying on the precipice of a geologic feature that could have been decades in the making.
Why has the world's biggest military, the People's Liberation Army of China, been ordered to start eating its leftovers?
