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Two American climbers are missing after an attempt to climb one of the highest mountain peaks in northern Pakistan.

The Spanish Parliament on Friday rejected acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's second bid in three days to form a minority government, inching the politically deadlocked country closer to holding its third parliamentary election this year.

Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef may be in trouble -- but it's not all bad news coming out of the region.

The migrants and refugees fleeing to Europe are often numbers until you meet them. Then they become people, with names and faces and stories of hardship, tragedy and hope. It all came together for me when in Italy I met Merhawit Tesfamariam, a 26-year-old Eritrean who gave birth to twins on board a rickety boat off the Libyan coast in late August.

Behind the forced smiles and obligatory handshakes that mark what could be President Barack Obama's final encounters with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin this Sunday at the G20 lurks one undeniably inconvenient reality: These days, more divides Russia and Turkey from the United States than unites them.

If true, it could be one of the most astonishing stories to ever emerge from North Korea.

Uzbekistan's first and only president has died, leaving an uncertain future for a government marred by controversy.

Jackie Chan is set to receive an honorary Oscar in November to honor the martial arts movie star's "distinctive international career."

A simple white sari with blue stripes. Since Mother Teresa adopted it, it's become one of the most iconic garments in the world.

China's ban on certain chemicals is being credited by Drug Enforcement Administration officials in a noticeable decrease in certain synthetic drugs in the United States.

Two Canadian women who documented a lavish cruise trip to Australia on Instagram could face life in prison after police say they seized 95 kilograms of cocaine from their ship docked in Sydney Harbour.

Visitors hoping to walk on the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge will have to hold their breath.

At least 10 people have been killed and 60 injured in an explosion at a market in Davao City, Philippines. The cause of the explosion is not known.

Whether he's describing his encounter with a family of mountain gorillas or with a blind baby rhino, British broadcaster and naturalist, David Attenborough, is as passionate as ever, even at 90 years of age.

I had a pretty ordinary childhood in the Indian city of Kolkata. I was part of a happy, healthy, close knit family. My sisters and I went to school, played some sport, hung out with our friends.

A year after the iconic photo of Aylan Kurdi's body on the beach, Carolyn Miles writes the world must step up and make a commitment to help refugees, their children and the countries who host them.

A court in Nice suspended the city's burkini ban, citing insufficient grounds to justify the controversial decree.

Barack Obama, who once declared himself America's first Pacific president, arrives in Asia for his last official visit Saturday with the trade pact that's a pillar of his strategic pivot to the region on life support and China increasingly determined to challenge US power.