North Korea's army said Wednesday it was moving to "permanently shut off and block the southern border" with Seoul and had informed the US military to prevent an accidental clash.

Polls opened in Mozambique on Wednesday in a general election, with voters casting ballots for a new president, provincial governors and members of parliament.

From his ranch on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, Joel Ferry has a front row view of climate change: a native of Utah, the Republican farmer has seen the water's surface area shrink by two-thirds ...

Shares in the Japanese company that owns 7-Eleven surged on Wednesday following a report that Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) had hiked its buyout offer for the firm by almost 20 percent.