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After years of political paralysis, the impoverished, war-scarred nation of Nepal appears finally to be moving forward.
For a decade, Maoist rebel fighters waged brutal warfare against Nepal's army. Five years after the end of the war, thousands of former insurgents are now joining that very army.
An army plane crashed in a remote mountainous region of west Nepal while bringing a sick person to the capital, killing six people, officials said Wednesday.
A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including 13 foreigners, officials said.
Fresh snow and unpredictable weather hampered efforts to pick tons of trash left behind by climbers on the slopes of Mount Everest, the veteran mountain guide who led the cleaning crew said Friday.
Amongst Nepal's Himalayan peaks and glacier-fed rivers is a capital with only a few hours a week of running water. The country had no prime minister much of the past year, and risks having no government at all by the weekend.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, they're fighting the battle of the pashmina.
Authorities warned Nepal's former crown prince but dropped an investigation Wednesday into his firing a gun after an argument at a resort last year.
Christians in Nepal threatened Tuesday to parade corpses in front of the parliament building after the government ruled last week that an area near a revered Hindu temple could no longer be used as their burial ground.
Nepal's government and the former communist rebels have reached an agreement on monitoring thousands of ex-fighters after the United Nations leaves this weekend, officials said Saturday.
The United Nations peace mission to Nepal has ended after a four-year engagement that helped end a communist insurgency.
A small passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing Wednesday while flying over a mountainous region of Nepal, an official said.
Police on Wednesday broke up demonstrations and arrested protesters who were demanding the release of Nepal's former crown prince detained for questioning after he fired a gun into the air after an argument, officials said.
Nepal's main political parties agreed Tuesday to approve the annual budget despite a long-running political stalemate, averting a government shutdown in the Himalayan nation.
A veteran Sherpa guide who has scaled Mount Everest 19 times and another Nepalese guide are missing after an avalanche hit them while they were climbing a smaller Himalayan peak, his agent said Sunday.
A Nepalese fruit seller's son with the body of a toddler turned 18 on Thursday and was officially declared the world's shortest man by Guinness record officials.
A rescue helicopter is searching the slopes of a mountain in central Nepal for three Japanese climbers and their Nepalese guide who were swept away by an avalanche earlier this week.
Astamaya Tami, 55, is part of a ragtag army of women who have turned Nepal into an against-all-odds success story when it comes to saving lives of expectant mothers, hundreds of thousands of whom die unnecessarily every year across the globe.
A power battle that has left Nepal's political system in limbo for months has also frozen efforts to solidify peace, write a constitution and push ahead with development in this desperately poor nation.
Nepalese investigators hoping to find the cause of a small plane crash last week that killed 14 people, including six foreigners, offered a reward Monday for help in finding the aircraft's "black box" recorders.
Dozens of Tibetan exiles on their way to take part in a celebration for the Dalai Lama's birthday were detained by police on Tuesday in the Nepalese capital.
Nepal's government was investigating the poaching of rhinos in the Himalayan nation after 28 of the endangered animals were killed over the past 11 months, an official said Monday.
The 13-year-old American boy who became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest announced plans Thursday for an ascent later this year of Mount Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest peak.
Nepal's prime minister agreed to resign after the former communist rebels supported his proposal to extend the term of parliament so it can draft a new constitution to end years of civil war and strife.
A Nepalese Sherpa who climbed Mount Everest for a record 20th time said Tuesday that the melting of glacier ice along its slopes due to global warming is making it increasingly difficult to climb the peak.
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