Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi, has erupted with pyroclastic matter, sand and a column of ash...

Toyota Motor Corp. is reporting its quarterly profit rose 21 percent as cost cuts and growing sales in some markets offset the damage from higher U.S. incentives...

Scientists are calling for cancellation of a Chinese-backed hydro dam in Indonesia which threatens the habitat of a newly discovered orangutan species numbering only 800 animals...

The cooks, hotel workers and other Filipinos who served tourists to Boracay headed home and started looking for other work as police guarded the empty beach on the first day of a shutdown intended to ...

Inuka, the world's first polar bear born in the tropics, has been euthanized by the Singapore Zoo...

Chinese automaker BAIC announces plans to produce electric cars in South Africa as Beijing auto show highlights China's growing role in the emerging technology...

Tourists are spending their final hours on Boracay, enjoying the Philippine island's famed white-sand beaches before it closes for up to six months to recover from overcrowding and development...

A report by a British-based conservation group says rising Chinese demand for products made from elephant skin is driving poaching and posing a threat to Asia's wild herds even greater than the ivory ...

Global automakers are showcasing their efforts to create electric cars for China's fast-growing but crowded market at their industry's biggest show of the year...

A volcano in southern Japan has erupted for the first time in 250 years, and the authorities have set up a no-go zone around the mountain...