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China’s mega hydropower project: The $165 billion dam that could reshape energy and Earth’s dynamics

'World’s largest water fight': 191 killed in 3 days of Thailand’s Songkran festival

11,000-year-old Neolithic structure discovered at Atatürk Dam in Turkey, shedding new light on early civilisation

10 Deepest rivers in the world ranked: From the Congo’s 250m depths to the Mississippi river

'Blaze not yet under control': Fire breaks out at Viva Energy's Geelong refinery in Australia

Sahara discovery: 7,000-year-old skeletons with unknown DNA puzzle scientists

'Indians doing everything to escape India': Woman's garba move at Canada citizenship ceremony draws flak

Paid to exist: Japanese man earns $80K a year just by renting himself out to lonely people

The Titanic: The most expensive life insurance policy the ocean ever bought

Japan deep-sea discovery: 38 new species found 5,000 meters deep inside a mysterious ‘glass castle’

China launches 100,000-tonne green methanol project construction

Discovery in the Arctic: Melting Russian glacier reveals a massive prehistoric whale graveyard thousands of years old

It’s raining cats in Malaysia: The story of ‘Operation Cat Drop’

China’s 120-kilometre undersea tunnel could cut 8-hour journey to just 40 minutes

Indonesia police arrest six for Komodo dragon smuggling

5,000-year-old DNA shock: Scientists uncover secret male dynasties in Scottish Stone Age tombs

Discovery of 600 gold coins valued at $330,000 by two hikers in a can in the Czech Republic

Scientists reveal how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built by moving 2.3 million stones without modern machines

Indian man charged with sexually assaulting woman on Australia-bound flight: 'Will be dealt with swiftly'

90-year-old mother arrested for laundering son’s drug money in South Korea

Archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old human bone cups and masks in China’s Yangtze River Delta

The Great Emu War of 1932: How 20,000 flightless birds outsmarted the Australian army

Rare 2,000-year-old wooden statue of Hercules unearthed in Ibiza

Colombia to kill 80 wild hippos once owned by Pablo Escobar: Why are the African giants being killed?

Mark Carney clinches decisive mandate as Trump’s rhetoric rallies Canadian voters

Threatening anti-Indian graffiti found outside New Zealand school; Indian MP slams it ‘vile and cowardly’

World’s longest unfinished building: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia nears completion after 144 years

Australia appoints woman to lead its army for the first time in 125-year-old history

1,000 Roman objects were found in Lake Switzerland, and they are almost perfectly preserved

'Sending this from Coachella is WILD': Justin Trudeau trolled for his post on Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary election

Was the Odyssey real? 3,000-year-old sanctuary of legendary Trojan War hero Odysseus discovered in Greece

How saudi arabia is using wastewater to build a green corridor in the desert

Breaking barriers: Susan Coyle becomes first woman to command Australian Army

Hidden for centuries: Archaeologists uncover the 350-hectare ‘missing city’ of Magas beneath Chechen soil

The Chinese treasure fleet (1525): One of history’s greatest strategic mistakes

This Egyptian discovery could rewrite humans origin history; scientists say we have been looking in the wrong place

$1bn, a bride or a breakup: Uganda general’s bizarre ultimatum to Turkey

Category 3 cyclone pummels New Zealand

Haiti stampede: 30 killed at historic Citadelle Laferrière

Indian man in Auckland faces abusive calls after video of him dumping trash from car goes viral: 'I already apologised'

A man who arrived in 1954 at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport from a country that doesn’t exist

‘The deadliest blob on Earth’: Why Chornobyl’s 2000-kilogram Elephant’s Foot still can’t be destroyed

Australia begins crackdown on Indian visas in 2026: Four in ten students rejected

World War II ace pilot Richard Bong’s missing fighter plane “Marge” found deep in Papua New Guinea Jungle after 80 years of mystery

Scientists in Australia have discovered a tiny microbe that could reveal the origin of human life

The week that was in international affairs: Iran war ceasefire and talks; Russia-Ukraine Orthodox Easter ceasefire & more

Buried for centuries: Giant funeral spheres discovered beneath Amazon tree roots in Brazil

200 ancient sites discovered in Greece reveal 6,000 years of hidden human history

Canada plans major overhaul of Express Entry, may scrap key immigration streams

How Indiaspora is connecting the world’s desi community

Rare Ice Age fossils found in Texas cave could rewrite ancient climate history

What is ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’: Canadian MP has sparked a debate online and Elon Musk has something to say about it

'Our priorities are democracy & peace': Myanmar's new President Min Aung Hlaing vows ASEAN normalcy

1,500-year-old monastery found beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta reveals incredible history of early Christian life

What happens when scientists move an entire river? The answer could reshape our future

'Didn't do it on purpose': Indian-origin gas station owner in Canada says he's facing racist attack after selling contaminated gas

Ancient human populations disappeared 3,000 years ago in France: DNA study reveals Paris tomb mystery

The Marseille miracle: how cutting pollution brought the sea back to life

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