Westerners' fascination with the way laborers in Thailand toil under the hot sun with faces and bodies completely covered finds fresh expression in a photo exhibition that's spread around Ratchaburi.

In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on New York's latest mode of public transport: a bicycle.

The weather pattern is likely to be unstable over the next few days, with heavy rains expected across the country until next Tuesday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system.

Australia on Thursday said it was pushing for a ban of any commercial use of a pioneering technique to reduce the impact of climate change by “fertilizing” the world's oceans with iron, warning of significant risks.

The Sun has unleashed four potent solar flares this week, marking the most intense activity yet this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications.

U.S. researchers reported a breakthrough in stem cell research on Wednesday, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells for the first time.

Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the International Space Station that saw him shoot to global stardom through his Twitter microblog.

The thought of eating beetles, caterpillars and ants may give you the creeps, but the authors of a U.N. report published on Monday said the health benefits of consuming nutritious insects could help fight obesity.

Dozens of Iberian black pigs, with their pointy snouts, large ears, tiny eyes and dark skin, grunt as they forage in a wide green field.