SYANGBOCHE, Nepal — A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ev...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals ...
Posted 11.24.2009 | World
(AP) BARIYAPUR, Nepal -- The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby c...
Posted 11.24.2009 | World
(AP) KATMANDU, Nepal - A Nepalese man who climbed Mt. Everest at age 76 and became the oldest person to conquer the world's highest peak celebrated Mo...
AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
KATMANDU, Nepal — A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in souther...
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
(AP) BEIJING President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament ...
Ellen Snortland | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
The European Summit for Global Transformation started when a group of friends asked, "What if we got together everyone we knew who's up to big things on the planet?" The results have exceeded everyone's expectations.
Climbing Magazine | climbing | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home
11/13/09 - Britons Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman have climbed the much-eyed north face of Chang Himal (a.k.a. Wedge Peak, 6,802 meters/22,316') in fa...
Climbing Magazine | climbing | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
11/12/09 - Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar is reportedly injured and stuck on the north face of Langtang Lirung (7,234 meters) in Nepal....
Bill Chameides | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
Someone tell me ... which is the real environmental news and which is fake?
Climbing Magazine | climbing | Posted 11.03.2009 | Home
11/03/09 - The Swiss climbers Samuel and Simon Anthamatten and Michael Lerjen have completed the alpine-style first ascent of the south face of Jasemb...
Subhash Ghimire | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
With few exceptions, Nepalese business and political leaders often dismiss young people when they come up with ambitious ideas. Unless they change their attitude, Nepal's future remains gloomy.
AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to...
Climbing Magazine | climbing | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home
10/30/09 - French alpinists Yannick Graziani and Christian Trommsdorff have climbed the south spur of 7,140-meter (23,425-foot) Nemjung in Nepal....
Jim Luce | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
Clif, 71, husband of Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, passed away in September after climbing one of the tallest mountains in the world, Mt. Cho Oyu, between Nepal and China.
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home
Nepal Army Chief Chhatraman Gurung leaves Kathmandu on Saturday for the United States of America on a week-long tour. He has already made public...
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
An Indian supersonic fighter plane on Thursday has violated Nepal’s sky in Darchula district in the name of patrolling Indian border territories...
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
In a time where people are cynical about the excesses of capitalism, and corruption in the developing world is rampant there is a lone beacon of light: the social entrepreneurs.
AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
AUSTIN, Texas — A 25-year-old convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped tow...
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
While Nepali Congress (NC) President and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has adopted silence over the appointment of his daughter Ms. Sua...
Subhash Ghimire | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact
At 34 years old, many women would be trying to get an engagement ring, not give one away. But when Christina Ammon inherited a 3.21 ct diamond ring fr...
Jim Luce | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
Maggie Doyne is your typical girl from New Jersey. She happens to live in Nepal caring for 27 orphans - in an orphanage she built ...
Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home
Refugees from Bhutan have come to find a new home in the Bronx. Although many Bhutanese refugees are scattered throughout the Bronx, a large populatio...
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
What a great week in animals! The HuffPost Green page posted adorable videos, beautiful photos, and some more serious animal news pieces. Be sure to v...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
The authorities in Nepal have ordered officials to find more goats for ritual slaughter ahead of the country's biggest religious festival of the year....
AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green