A group of athletes was returning home from Nigeria's National Sports Festival when their bus veered off a bridge.

Bangladeshi prosecutors have accused former leader Sheikh Hasina, who is currently in India, of "crimes against humanity" during last year's uprising against her rule.

Experts have linked high body weight to poverty, pesticides and malnutrition, among other things. The Health Ministry is ...

This spring was one of the driest on record in Germany. Agriculture, groundwater, and even retail prices are suffering.

The plane crashed into a residential building in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. One of the dead is ...

Torrential rains in central Nigeria on Wednesday triggered flooding and widespread damage. Rescuers say the death toll has ...

Severe weather has caused chaos across several parts of Germany. Meanwhile, three adult patients were killed in a fire at a hospital in Hamburg. Follow DW for more.

Chinese researchers have developed an infrared contact lens that makes night vision possible. Nanoparticles make the previously invisible light range visible to the human eye.

Seven people died when a passenger train derailed in Russia's Bryansk region, close to Ukraine, after a bridge collapsed because of what local officials described as "illegal interference." ...

The German government wants to send asylum seekers back to Greece. Athens is opposed to such repatriation. Instead, it wants ...

Residents in the Lötschental valley have been asked to prepare for evacuation. It comes after Wednesday's glacier collapse ...

Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...