Fiji’s military ruler said Tuesday it could be 10 years before he relinquishes power, issuing a defiant challenge to South Pacific leaders as they met to press him into restoring democracy.

Envoys from India, China and other developing nations offered Wednesday to hold the line on their greenhouse gas emissions, but only as measured against the per-capita pollution produced by the United States and other richer nations.The U.S. emits about..

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.The pre-dawn quake was centered about 50 miles north of the coastal town of Lae and 240 miles...

A war winds on, but lawmakers are seemingly powerless to do anything about it. The wrenching sorrow of tragedies on a Virginia campus, a Minnesota highway bridge and deep inside a Utah coal mine is compounded by a question that echoes: Could this have...

A war winds on, but lawmakers are seemingly powerless to do anything about it.The wrenching sorrow of tragedies on a Virginia campus, a Minnesota highway bridge and deep inside a Utah coal mine is compounded by a question that echoes: Could this have...

Delegates at a U.N. climate conference have agreed to include forest conservation in any future discussions about a new global warming pact, paving the way for billions of dollars in new spending to attack illegal logging, officials said.With...

In one New Guinea hilltop village the message was rooted deep in lore: If you hunt in the valley below and sleep there overnight, evil spirits will possess you, you’ll become sick, and you’ll die.It was a homespun kind of malaria control in the...