The World Bank has signed a $975 million loan agreement with the Indian government to fund a railway freight project, a government statement said late Thursday.

Many of Japan's political and intellectual leaders remain committed to nuclear power even as Japanese public opinion has turned sharply against it.

Thailand's Chao Praya river swelled to record highs on Friday, as big-name tourist hotels were emptying and foreign governments warned their citizens away from the capital.

Japan is reconsidering plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future, and the country is worried that it is spending too much on carbon-credit progra

The world is headed for a "dire future" where high energy prices drag on economic growth and global temperatures rise dangerously, unless significant innovations are made to lower the cost of clean

Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC and Eni SpA will spend around $100 billion to upgrade three oil fields in southern Iraq, an Iraqi official said.

Eni SpA, the Italian energy giant, has made a very large natural-gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique, big enough that it could turn the East African country into a major exporter of gas to As

The Obama administration will hold two days of meetings with North Korea next week in a bid to resume a nuclear-disarmament process with Pyongyang that foundered in 2008.

Alarmed by recent discoveries of radioactive "hot spots" in Tokyo and other areas far from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan will soon issue guidelines to help citizens and local

A stranded cargo vessel off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island has spilled more oil into the ocean, as efforts to pump the remaining oil off the ship are hampered by bad weather, Maritime