SCIENCE

A new study has indicated that kissing may have led to the spread of the cold-sore virus, which now affects almost 4 billion people across the world.

Russian space officials have informed their U.S. counterparts that Moscow would like to keep flying its cosmonauts on the International Space Station at least until their own orbital outpost is built, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday.

A severe drought gripping much of Spain threatens to shrivel their harvest this year.

A 170 carat pink diamond -- dubbed The Lulo Rose -- was discovered at Lulo mine in the country's diamond-rich northeast.

Piles of discarded unwanted clothes have been washing up on the beaches of Accra, creating an environmental catastrophe.

The authorities in the UK have urged people to limit their water usage as the country faces its driest weather since 1976.

The unprecedented heatwave in Europe has pushed the freezing point in Switzerland way above its highest summits.

A chemical called "6PPD-quinone" has been responsible for killing salmon in urban streams.

Swarms of jellyfish have inundated Israel's Mediterranean coast forcing bathers to stay as far away from the beaches

The UK, which has been witnessing extremely high temperatures and dry weather conditions, is now facing a drought alert.

Japan's national weather agency issued its top-level alert after the Sakurajima volcano, located in the Kagoshima Prefecture, erupted on Sunday.

Greece on Sunday was battling three major wildfires in the north, in the south and in the east, amid high temperatures raising fears for more blazes.

While a handful of member states have legislation limiting working hours in excessive heat, the thresholds vary and many nations have no nationwide heat limits.

The vast heatwave covering swathes of Europe moved steadily eastwards on Thursday, forcing countries including Italy, Poland and Slovenia to issue their highest heatwave alerts as firefighters battled wildfires across the continent.

The extreme heat caused huge transport disruption and sparked the same kind of wildfires seen in Europe in recent years.

At least 13 people have died in Britain while swimming during a spell of record-breaking hot weather that sparked wildfires, damaged train tracks and triggered warnings that efforts to tackle climate change needed to be stepped up.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned governments around the world against the threat posed by climate change

During the two recent heatwaves in Europe, users in various countries and languages misleadingly juxtaposed weather maps, sometimes taken from different media organisations at non-comparable dates.

In parliament, the strict dress code was even relaxed, with male MPs allowed to take off their jackets.

A Japanese man has admitted to killing at least 30 green sea turtles after they got stuck in his fishing nets.

The UK is reeling under a severe heatwave condition, with temperatures expected to soon reach 40 degrees Celsius.

Stellar-mass black holes are believed to be born during the death of a large star, in a massive supernovae explosion.

Sales of electric fans, hoses, air conditioning units and sprinklers are soaring as Britons swelter amid record temperatures, retailers said.

Britain was on course for its hottest day on record on Monday with temperatures forecast to hit 40C for the first time, forcing train companies to cancel services, schools to close early and ministers to urge the public to stay at home.

A rare white whale washed ashore on a beach in Australia on Saturday. The carcass of the whale was found at a beach in Mallacoota.

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe.

The UK's Environment Agency has come down heavily on the bosses of nine water and sewerage companies in England.

The high temperatures witnessed by the American West has caused an intense drought in the region making rivers and lakes touch historically low levels.

Last week an avalanche triggered by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps amid unusually warm temperatures killed 11 people.