Rwanda is using a new approach known as environmental DNA technology to detect species like the endangered mountain gorilla using genetic material left in soil and water

Officials said a speeding minibus has struck a bus parked along a motorway in northwest Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring five others

Rescuers have pulled out two workers from the rubble of a nine-story hotel that collapsed while being constructed in a northern Philippine city, bringing the death toll to three with 17 others still missing

The annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, has begun

A truck carrying iron rods and extra passengers has overturned in central Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and injuring 10 others

An Australian spy agency boss has told an inquiry he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at Sydney Hanukkah celebration

China has launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with three astronauts heading to its space station

A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives

The U.K.’s Royal Navy is preparing for a potential mine-clearing operation in the Strait of Hormuz

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa uses his State of the Union address to highlight his government's crime-fighting strategies backed by the United States

Police have stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party, using tear gas and rubber bullets

Experts say several crises combine to make the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo difficult to contain

Congolese authorities announce that suspected Ebola cases in the country's east have now climbed over 900

Authorities in northern China are investigating a coal mine operator for safety lapses after an explosion killed at least 82 people

Thousands have rallied in central Madrid against spiraling housing costs that have priced many Spaniards out of the market

The military did not specify how long those rescued had been in captivity.

British mountain guide Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the 20th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents by a non-Sherpa guide

In Arachova, a Greek village reliant on snowmelt, water scarcity is becoming a concern

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said

A spearfisher has been mauled on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia’s second fatal shark attack in just over a week

A nine-story building under construction in a city north of the Philippine capital Manila

Russia has launched an intense missile and drone attack on Kyiv, shaking buildings across the city center

Two separate traffic accidents in Cambodia have killed at least 14 garment factory workers and injured 93 others, mostly women

The government in the oil-rich province of Alberta plans a referendum on leaving Canada but says it won't actually be a vote on whether to separate

Serbia’s university students are gearing up for a major rally this weekend, pushing for political changes under President Aleksandar Vucic