A fire broke out on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs at a shipyard near Russia's eastern coastal city of Vladivostok on Monday, but naval officials said there was no risk of a radiation ...

The last of the 26 graft suspects being tried for receiving millions of rupiahs in the appointment of a senior central bank official has been convicted and sentenced to 17 months in jail, the Jakarta ...

The wife of an Indonesian legislator and retired police general accused of bribing lawmakers will face her first trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Friday, the Jakarta Post reported, citing the ...

In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. In Chad, our way of life gives space to nature to regenerate - when we leave a piece of land, ...

A box of vegetables is displayed at a 900 square meters farm garden on the rooftop of a postal sorting center, as part of a project by Facteur Graine (Seed Postman) association to transform a city ...

Web Summit conference hears plans by Danish architecture firm BIG and Chinese tech company Terminus to build an AI-run city in Chongqing Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From robots delivering ...

Much has changed over the last decade, including the overwhelming adoption of mobile phones and digital apps that encompass an all-inclusive array of services, including disaster response. The latest ...

An illustration depicting life as a seamstress in an Indian garment factory in Tamil Nadu, India. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Surasti Puri CHENNAI, India, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sudha ...

BOGOTA, April 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia's highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what ...

NAIROBI, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a year ago, it would take Pamela Auma a whole month to prepare the land on her farm in western Kenya for planting ahead of the rainy season. With ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slavery ...