The United Arab Emirates has closed beaches and warned fishermen to avoid the Persian Gulf off one of its seven emirates after an oil spill from a tanker. The spill has impacted the beaches of the Umm Al Quwain where aut

Israel began demolishing several Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied West Bank on Friday following a deadly attack by two Palestinian gunmen that killed two Israeli soldiers near Hebron. The two suspected attacke

Reuters reporters set out to define a heat wave and uncovered something far bigger: "heat storms" that now blanket vast stretches of the planet. On this episode of On Assignment, the journalists behind the investigation,

Typhoon Champi killed one person and injured hundreds in Taiwan, as well as downing trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people as the storm's strong winds and rains continued overnight Friday into S