A prominent US senator back from a trip to Cuba said Sunday that "give and take" by both sides is needed to gain the release of a US contractor being held on the island.

Six underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on the Columbia River in southern Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to public health, Governor Jay Inslee said on Friday.

The 15th ASEAN-India Senior Officials Meeting (AISOM) issued a statement in New Delhi on Feb. 21, affirming the event was the first official engagement between ASEAN and India following the elevation of the relationship to a strategic partnership.

Lao Prime Minister Thongsinh Thammavong meets with Australian Foreign Minister

The world public is curious about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Cairo during the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. A closer relationship between these two countries is a hopeful sign for peace in the Middle East.

In an unlikely tie-up, astronomers and cancer researchers have joined forces to study breast tumours using image analysis software originally developed to explore the distant stars.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba on Monday more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member.

The recent discovery of a ceremonial fireplace believed to be more than 5,000 years old sheds light on one of the oldest populated sites in the Americas.

Saturday saw a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, and a 6.0 magnitude one struck off the North Island of New Zealand.

China has increased radiation monitoring in its northeast following North Korea's nuclear test this week and found no immediate abnormalities, the Environment Ministry said on Thursday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned the third underground nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying the latest move by Pyongyang "is a grave violation" of relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.

An earthquake measured in North Korea was a "suspected explosion", says China

Relief workers scrambled to reach quake-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands Saturday, with "unusual seismic activity" sighted as strong aftershocks continued to jolt the remote Pacific region.

The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but postponed due to bad weather. The rocket lifted off at 8:04 p.m. Moscow time (1604 GMT), tasked with sending six Globalstar telecommunication satellites into an orbit some 900 km from the Earth.