Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases. The two long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) named Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong...

Workers on the Myanmar side of the border with Bangladesh laid bricks, dug ditches and drilled holes in building frames in preparation Wednesday for the possible repatriation of some of the Rohingya Muslims who have poured into Bangladesh in what's become the world's worst refugee crisis....

US President Donald Trump is aiming to be the "best salesperson" for American economic interests when he goes to Davos later this week, the White House said Tuesday. Trump is set to speak Friday at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of the global pro-trade elite at the Swiss...

Three French women who joined Daesh (ISIS) before being captured by Iraqi forces could be facing the death penalty as they await trial in Baghdad, sources close to their cases told AFP. The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the militants from Mosul last July, one source said,...