Damages from Thailand's worst flooding in decades continued to mount as parts of another industrial estate were inundated and residents worried that Bangkok remained vulnerable despite recent reced

Several beaches on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island were closed to the public from Thursday and operations at the Port of Tauranga will be suspended overnight, after oil and containers

BP PLC Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to developing oil and gas resources in the U.K.

General Motors Co. said Wednesday that it will start selling an all-electric Chevrolet small car for the U.S. market in 2013.

India's coal ministry wants companies that mine coal for their own use to pay for the welfare of people displaced by their projects, in line with a similar proposal for commercial miners, Coal Mini

India's coal ministry plans to give priority to NTPC Ltd.

Australia's controversial plan to introduce a tax on carbon emissions cleared a major political hurdle Wednesday, securing the expected approval of the country's lower legislative house.

Some European Union countries are raising concerns that efforts to break a deadlock with other major world economies over an EU plan to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions could end up discriminating

Officials here kicked off what promises to be more than a year of bitter wrangling over how to revise its $75 billion-a-year program to aid Europe's farmers, and the sniping began almost immediatel

Japanese researchers discovered high levels of radioactive material in concentrated areas in Tokyo and Yokohama, more than 150 miles away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as increasingly t