Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected ...

More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued, Chinese officials said, with an ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with ...

More than 14,000 rescue workers have arrived in Tibet to continue the search for survivors after a strong earthquake killed ...

Relief teams in western China shifted their focus to resettling survivors after a search Wednesday for any remaining victims ...

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said more than 1,000 homes were damaged in the barren and sparsely populated region.

Powerful tremors shook Nepal's capital Kathmandu just before dawn on Tuesday, an AFP reporter said, after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck a remote Himalayan region near Mount Everest.

Along with extreme cold, the air pollution in Kathmandu Valley has also increased. According to the Air Quality Index (AQI), ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the earthquake occurred at 6.35 am, 93 km northeast of Lobuche, near the ...

The epicentre of Tuesday's magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region's most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in ...

The earthquake was felt in neighbouring Kavrepalanchwok and Dhading districts as well. People came out of their houses out of ...