It might be merely a backdrop in an animated movie - but it shines a spotlight on one of the world's hottest territorial ... In that shed, there's a big map of East Asia on the wall, with pictures ...

The redrawing of the map covers a relatively small region high in the Himalayas but it has stirred simmering tensions between two of the world's biggest ... a South Asia expert at the Fudan ...

The long trip by a frail, 87-year-old pope was seen as a bold endeavor and a muscular step for a global church looking East.

When World War I ended in 1918, the winners, principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

The culinary arts of the world's various peoples are a cultural heritage ... Here, in order to give some thought to the traditional dietary cultures of Asia, let us imagine a map of Asian staple foods ...

Of every 100 infections last reported around the world, about 22 were reported from countries in Asia and the Middle East. The region is currently reporting a million new infections about every 6 ...

Signs of the times. On his tour, Pope Francis promoted peace, religious harmony, and Catholicism’s engagement with Islam, ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

They often reflect values of the people who create them and define their place in the world. Maps were used for military and political ... in Xinjiang and the former Soviet countries of central Asia.

Pope Francis arrived in East Timor on the penultimate leg of his Asia-Pacific tour amid a controversy over the hefty expense incurred on the trip by one of the world’s poorest countries. Tens of ...

From the impracticality of Quidditch to the paradox of time-turners, let's investigate the inconsistencies in the 'Harry ...