Japan's neighbors reacted with concern after the country's upper chamber of parliament approved measures Saturday removing some long-standing limits on overseas combat.

India's capital is combating its worst outbreak of dengue fever in five years, with the tropical mosquito-borne disease posing a momentous challenge to the city's creaky health infrastructure.

Nearly two months after debris from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 washed up on Reunion Island, a large object reportedly floating off the island has piqued the interest of French officials there.

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work showing that neutrinos -- electrically neutral subatomic particles -- have mass, contrary to what had been thought.

It is illegal to attack hospitals under international humanitarian law, but it's not as simple as that, explains a war crimes expert

An international cricket star wanted in connection with the alleged abuse of his 11-year-old domestic helper has turned himself in to a court in Bangladesh.

The U.S. government should mandate a civilian body, outside of the military chain of command, to investigate the Afghan hospital bombing.

President Barack Obama called and apologized to the head of Doctors Without Borders, whose staff and patients were killed and injured during a bombing Saturday in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the White House said Wednesday.

"King Kazu" -- often dubbed "the world's oldest footballer" -- signs new contract, at the ripe old age of 48.