China is accelerating efforts to end dependence on foreign technology, with reports indicating the Ministry of State Security has instructed select government-affiliated agencies to remove Windows 10 from computers ahead of schedule and transition to...

KATHMANDU (NEPAL) - The number of people missing in the catastrophic flood that sliced through the border area between Nepal and Tibet neared 3,000 on Sunday, as rescuers scoured deep, leg-sucking mud for survivors.

RAMALLAH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Alia al-Hallaq's son Mohammed was nine when he was killed by an Israeli army bullet last October, but the Palestinian homemaker still speaks of herself as a mother of five, not four.

NEW YORK - When 17-year-old student Max Avena visited the site of New York's fallen Twin Towers, hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors of the deadliest attacks on US soil left him "speechless."

WASHINGTON - NASA plans to launch its new flagship space telescope on Sunday, embarking on a multi-year mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in physics.