The US and Cuba reach an understanding on resuming regular commercial flights between the two countries, officials in Washington and Havana say.

An international team says the number of landslides in April's devastating Nepal-Ghorka earthquake was far lower than people had feared.

Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study by doctors in New York suggests.

Authorities from Singapore and Indonesia are searching for six people, after a chemical tanker collided with a freighter in the Singapore Strait.

Shares in Asia are all in positive territory on Thursday on news the US Federal Reserve raised its rates for the first time since June 2006.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to explore new ways of tackling the migrant crisis with Turkey and other nations before the EU holds its final summit of 2015.

A meeting in a Dutch down discussing plans to build a centre to house asylum seekers is abandoned after protesters riot.

China summons a senior US envoy in protest after Washington announced it would sell two warships and other weaponry to Taiwan.