A raging Bronx fire left two men dead Wednesday morning and heavily damaged a Buddhist temple next door, FDNY officials said.

We’re not supposed to do it, but where else am I gonna park,” the unidentified driver whined, according to ABC 7. “You can’t ...

Burmese actor and model Paing Takhon is officially off the market! The 28-year-old, who once took the internet by storm for being “Myanmar’s hottest monk", has recently announced his engagement, as ...

The FDNY says a parked car blocked a fire hydrant and slowed its response to a deadly fire in the Bronx Wednesday.

A monk in the Mekong Delta's An Giang Province was accused of sexually abusing one girl and three boys while he was the vice ...

The doors of Santa Marta remain closed to the Dalai Lama. "Yet we would expect that after so long they would open for him too." In these nearly twelve years of pontificate, Bergoglio has ...

China's coercive and violently assimilationist policies towards its religious and racial minorities are not unknown. Despite the regular condemnation that it receives from the international community ...

This is an image that has been making waves across Vietnamese media and social platforms in the first days of the New Year. Some people say it resembles lego bricks stacked together, while others ...

On Tuesday evening, the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, was filled with excitement as 32 teams gathered for the ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.