Tree houses are becoming an increasingly popular choice for United Kingdom adults interested in romantic and eco-friendly countryside getaways.

Along the Chinese and Kazakh border, many sheepherders are abandoning their traditional nomadic lifestyle in response to desertification and economic pressures.

Dozens gathered this week in Beijing to continue an ancient Chinese tradition of cricket breeding and fighting.

As the leaders of the two Koreas meet for a historic summit today, South Korean school kids are being taught to accept and understand their northern neighbors.

Oktoberfest starts flowing, protesters march in Myanmar, Mars rover reaches a crater landmark, and more.

One group of Croatian grandmothers may have found the secret to staying young: sailing. Meet the seafaring seniors as they navigate their skiff off the Dalmatian coast.

Early Polynesians traveled thousands of miles - from Hawaii to Tahiti - for trade and exploration, suggests a new study of woodworking tools.

New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu erupted without warning on Tuesday, covering a ski slope on the mountain's side with mud and injuring a resort worker.

Baboons casually open car doors and climb in, rob homes, and otherwise terrorize residents of South Africa's Cape Peninsula.

Reproduced from an eighth-century Koran, a solid-gold book worth an estimated six million U.S. dollars was loaned from Russia to Iran in September 2007.

In South Africa a spectacular show enlivens one of the world's richest hot spots of floral diversity.

Visitors can snorkel and swim with whale sharks as they make an annual appearance to feed on plankton blooms each September off Mexico. But there's concern the tourists could innocently harm this vulnerable species.

A new Middle Eastern skyscraper is now the tallest freestanding structure in the world, developers claimed in September 2007.

Islamists tried to blow up a statue of Buddha carved into a mountain in Pakistan on September 10. "Whether it is destroyed or not, it does not matter," said one villager. "It is just an engraving made by foreigners."

Wildfire ravages California, divers try out the life aquatic, Typhoon Nari lashes South Korea, more.