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Osiris-Rex makes brief contact with asteroid Bennu in an effort to pick up fragments of rock.

Chaos broke out when thousands gathered in a stadium in Afghanistan to apply for visas to Pakistan.

Recent heavy rains and flash floods damaged the 19th-Century Seiyun Palace in Hadramawt province.

The US president, who sparked a trade war with Beijing, is critical of US firms doing business in China.

A breakthrough appears to have been made to extend the nations' last-remaining treaty - New Start.

The US Justice Department accuses Google of disadvantaging its rivals in search and advertising.

The deal with the US Department of Justice settles some of the most serious claims against the OxyContin-maker.

Researchers have developed a white paint that reflects sunlight and helps cool buildings.

"They are children of God and have a right to a family," Pope Francis says in a new documentary.

The attack took place on the German capital's Museum Island and took over two weeks to come to light.

How a tiny insect with super-tough body armour can survive being stamped on or run over by a car.

Many governments are contemplating taking coins out of circulation – and others already have. But the decision isn’t as easy as shutting off machines at the mint.

For more than 130 years, Spanish street food hawkers have peddled artisanal sweets that people can only eat after spinning a roulette wheel. Now, this tradition may soon vanish.

Traditional restaurants are trying to find ways of staying in business in a second wave of Covid-19.

Elon Musk breaks down climate change for students at The Sorbonne in Paris (France's Harvard) right before the historic COP21 climate change conference in wh...

Few human structures can change a landscape quite like a dam. We look at the legacies these giant barriers will leave for our descendants.

Victor Gevers claimed he had access to president’s account, De Volkskrant reported, but Twitter said ‘we’ve seen no evidence’

Poland has some of Europe's strictest laws, but the constitutional court tightens them still further.

Asafoetida occupies a treasured spot in the Indian pantry, but has never been farmed there until now.

The first images are released of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft trying to grab rock from asteroid Bennu.

Humans are deeply social creatures, so what happens when we’re alone for a long time?

From fake news to how other countries see the US - here's a look at the president's global impact.

There is no known link between the seasonal dust clouds and Covid-19 but Pyongyang is on high alert.

Why does the biology of coronavirus mean it poses such a threat to human life?

Norway pays for a monthly satellite dataset to track the state of the world's tropical forests.