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Kim Ja-in was born to climb.

Almost six million people are under threat from rising flood waters across South Asia, where hundreds of thousands of people have already been displaced as a result of heavy monsoon rains.

The backlash abroad against President Xi Jinping's China, at least in developed nations, has spread rapidly in the last year.

Millions of school students have started their long summer vacation this month, but for some the two-month break won't be much of a holiday.

Germany's Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the European Commission's first female president.

Following allegations of sexism and gender bias, the Consumer Technology Association said Tuesday it would officially sanction sex tech companies, allowing them to show their products at next year's Consumer Electronics Show.

Suzanne Eaton, the American scientist killed in Greece, was raped, police in Crete said Tuesday.

London's mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked plans for a controversial tower known as the Tulip, saying the structure would be of "limited" public benefit and "detrimental" to the capital's skyline.

A thinker and scholar, Novak Djokovic introduced a word probably never heard before in a media conference at Wimbledon: transmutate.

Health authorities in the Philippines have declared a "national dengue alert" after a spike in cases of the viral disease which has left more than 450 people dead since January.

China held military drills off the coast of Taiwan as tensions rise between Beijing and Washington over US support for the island that China views as a part of its territory.

A giant jellyfish the size of a human has stunned a diver off the south-western coast of England.

The European Union's foreign policy chief has said that none of the signatory parties to the Iran nuclear deal believe that the country's breach of the agreement are "significant."

Free rush shipping can come with a cost to the environment — and retailers are doing a careful dance to try to mitigate it without turning customers away.