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Demonstrators clash with police in Katmandu
Nepal police say a small plane with foreign tourists has crashed while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal.Police say the plane was trying to...
A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and ...
Nepal's prime minister on Monday thanked "Absolutely Fabulous" actress Joanna Lumley for her campaign to grant thousands of Gurkha war veterans and their families th...
A farmer in Nepal reportedly turned the tables on a venomous snake who bit him, chasing down the deadly cobra and biting it to death.Mohamed Salmo Miya reportedly wa...
Police say two Russian trekkers are missing in Nepal's northern mountains and rescuers are scouring the area in an attempt to find them.Police official Ram Shrestha ...
Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.Tilak Padney of N...
A British court on Saturday denied bail to a colonel in the Nepalese army facing charges of torture allegedly committed during the Himalayan nation's civil war.Kumar...
An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit of Mount Everest five years ago is back on the mountain to make ano...
Farmers call attention to financial troubles in France; world's shortest person in Nepal
Protesters clash with police in Nepal ; two killed in Bolivia's annual 'fighting festival'
For centuries, the resentments simmered in this Himalayan nation, a place where everyone knew who belonged to the country's small elite and who did not.Ethnic minori...
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese government and opposition leaders failed Wednesday to resolve disagreements that could leave the Himalayan nation without a functioni...
85-year-old daredevil in Peru; elephant festival kicks off in Nepal
Group headed to Mount Everest goes down in heavy rain
Five climbers including two Hungarians and a South Korean are missing on the world's third-highest mountain and feared dead, a mountaineering official said Friday.Th...
A mountaineer is reportedly under fire from the Nepalese government for his "illegal" call from the top of Mount Everest.British climber Daniel Hughes called the BBC...
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest -- although his record may last only a few days. An 81-yea...
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday — although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year...
As the annual rainy season gathers over Haiti, bringing the risk of a renewed cholera epidemic that first struck in October 2011, growing numbers of health care prof...