Indonesia scientists say they are closely monitoring a smoking volcano on Java island, urging villagers and tourists to stay off the mountain’s slope.

A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists said on Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who is now two and a half years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

A 114-year-old Japanese woman, the daughter of a kimono maker, was formally recognized Wednesday as the world’s oldest woman.

An international human rights organisation says the Syrian military fired at least four ballistic missiles into the embattled northern city of Aleppo over the past week, killing more than 140 people, including 70 children.

A spokesman for the US-led coalition in Afghanistan says NATO has so far found no evidence to support Afghan allegations of misconduct by American special forces in a strategic eastern province.

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Iran has selected 16 locations for the construction of nuclear power plants as part of a plan to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity at multiple sites over the next 15 years.

North Korea has warned the top US commander in South Korea to cancel upcoming drills aimed at deterring Pyongyang’s military provocations.

The Spanish king’s son-in-law is set to make a second appearance in court to be questioned by a judge about allegations he and a partner funneled millions of euros to companies they controlled.

Writer Geoff Johns has taken DC Entertainment’s Green Lantern and its associated characters through brightest day and blackest night, but after nine years of scripting tales about the galactic police