At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. One by one, he taps bowed heads with a ...

This is the moment an avalanche thundered down Mount Everest before swallowing a camp in wave of snow. The fast-moving ...

Starting at the birthplace of Buddhism, a writer traces how its teachings spread across Asia, transforming the continent ...

Cheng Wei (right), a climber from Guangzhou, is on the way up Luodui Mountain with mountaineering guide Chime Tashi. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Seventy-one climbers successfully reached the ...

The following is an edited extract from The Story of Birds: A New History From Their Dinosaur Origins To the Present I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college student, on my first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A driver captured the incredible moment a ground-hugging rainbow was seen floating above a valley near a mountain range in Tibet, ...

On the morning of April 26, 2026, India lost the man who had spent more than half a century making sure it would never forget itself. Raghu Rai, photographer, photojournalist, witness, died at a ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- From its first gurgles in the mountains of Tibet, the Mekong River winds its way for more than 4,000 kilometers through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It then splits ...

What do Tibetan mountains say about the recent climate change that is driven by and intensifies complex changes and disruptions to multiple relationships on the Tibetan Plateau? How do the mountains ...

Ancient Romans and Greeks placed coins in the mouth of the deceased for passage through the mythological Styx; memorials are dedicated to victims of genocide; vultures consume bodies in the high ...