Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected ...

One sure-fire way I know to beat the cold is to get out there and get into some hot (heh heh) entertainment. This weekend in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation may encounter some significant hurdles if two Virginia senators ...

Parliamentary democracy was introduced in 1951 but was twice suspended by Nepalese monarchs, in 1960 and 2005. The Nepalese Civil War in the 1990s and early 2000s resulted in the establishment of a ...

The narrative of Kanchhi follows two time lines — the early-1990s, a tumultuous time with major political restructuring just before the beginning of Nepal’s civil war, and a day in 2005, before the ...

In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just read? What ...

The long-awaited ceasefire and hostage release deal between the Israeli government and Hamas will take effect on Sunday, ...

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet on Tuesday in an area near the Nepalese border and Mount Everest, killing at least ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal, with a pause in fighting in Gaza and the phased release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners set to begin early Sunday. Follow for live updates.

The coup and ensuing civil war have ravaged Myanmar’s economy ... She tells of holidays to Singapore, India and Nepal, and dining in malls with her friends. But after the coup, prices of ...

The epicentre of Tuesday's earthquake was around 80 km north of Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular ...