Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of a massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared Wednesday to 166, officials said.

Ethiopian skier Robel Teklemariam is not the first slightly odd entrant to challenge for Winter Olympic glory…

Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.

Iran’s military has launched two production lines to build unmanned aircraft with surveillance and attack capabilities, the defense minister said Monday.

American and British forces poised to assault the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, have begun targeting insurgent leaders for assassination, The Sunday Times reported.

A Shiite militant group in Iraq has posted an Internet video showing an American it says it abducted and who appears to be a contractor reported missing by the U.S. military.

In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital.

Five cases of Scotch whisky have been found embedded in the ice beneath an Antarctic hut used by explorer Ernest Shackleton a century ago.

A Chinese rickshaw driver has started chaining his son to a lamp post when he goes on fares, fearing the child will be kidnapped.

U.S. counterterrorism officials believe Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead following a missile attack last month, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday in the strongest signal that Washington has offered about the militant’s fate.