The Los Angeles City Council approved a citywide increase in parking meter rates, raising them from $1.00 to $1.50 per hour. The rate changes are part of a broader city effort to address a budget ...

Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth’s crust, as the world’s second largest economy explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface.

SAIJO, Japan >> Straddling Saijo and Kumakogen in Ehime prefecture, Mount Ishizuchi is the highest mountain in western Japan, ...

BEIJING — About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount ...