Naegohyang Women's FC lifted the trophy thanks to captain Kim Kyong Yong's goal just before half-time in the South Korean city of Suwon. Women's football is one of North Korea's strongest international sports, with their national sides regularly co...

A total of 247 workers were underground at the time of the blast, which occurred at 7:29 pm (1129 GMT) on Friday at the Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi province, according to state news agency Xinhua. At least 90 people had died and 123 others were s...

Up here, in a starkly beautiful landscape of snowy peaks and glaciers, excavators are carving huge chunks out of the mountains to mine for copper and other minerals. Aldana Ramirez tries to warm up beside a brasero, a type of local heater, on a fre...

The head of the Roman Catholic Church will travel to Acerra, a city near Naples in the southern Italian region of Campania, where hazardous waste -- often from the wealthy north -- has long been set alight or buried. For decades, the soil, groundwa...

Naegohyang Women's FC lifted the trophy thanks to captain Kim Kyong Yong's goal just before half-time in the South Korean city of Suwon. Women's football is one of North Korea's strongest international sports, with their national sides regularly co...

A total of 247 workers were underground at the time of the blast, which occurred at 7:29 pm (1129 GMT) on Friday at the Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi province, according to state news agency Xinhua. At least 90 people had died and 123 others were s...

Up here, in a starkly beautiful landscape of snowy peaks and glaciers, excavators are carving huge chunks out of the mountains to mine for copper and other minerals. Aldana Ramirez tries to warm up beside a brasero, a type of local heater, on a fre...

The Tiangong space station -- crewed by teams of three astronauts that are typically rotated every six months -- is the crown jewel of China's space programme, boosted by billions in state investment in a bid to catch up with the United States and R...

Polish airline LOT had accused Boeing of fraud and sued for $250 million in lost income after the company's alleged "purposeful and negligent false representations and omissions concerning the 737 MAX aircraft," the initial complaint said. The jury...