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KATHMANDU: An 82-year-old Nepalese man who holds the world record for being the oldest person to summit Mount Everest will defend his title against a familiar octogenarian competitor, organisers said Thursday. Min Bahadur Sherchan’s record for scaling the world’s highest peak at 76 is being challenged by arch rival Yuichiro Miura of Japan, who is already on his way...

Jon Griffith, who had to flee with two companions as 'years of frustration' boiled over, feared 'mob' would stone them to deathA British climber and two companions confronted on Everest by an angry mob are returning home after deciding they no longer feel safe enough to stay on the mountain.Speaking from Lukla, the town that acts as gateway to the Everest region, Jon Griffith...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal officials vowed on Monday to ensure the safety of climbers seeking to scale Mount Everest after three European climbers were involved in a fight with sherpa guides on...

An Iranian man travelling on a fake Israeli passport is in police custody suspected of plotting a terrorist attack after being arrested outside Israel's embassy in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, it has been reported.    

Israeli Embassy in Kathmandu apprehends Iranian man who made "frequent, suspicious visits" to the embassy area.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A crowd stamped on the body of the wild cat after it was shot dead by police following the attack on people in the suburb of Gothatar on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital.

Police in Nepal's capital Kathmandu have launched a campaign to round up cows roaming the streets, blaming the sacred animals for car accidents and traffic jams.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - China is putting pressure on Nepal to interrupt the flow of Tibetan refugees into the Himalayan nation, former United States President Jimmy Carter said on Monday.

How a tradition leading to 1,000-strong Passover Seders may have started 30 years ago in the Nepalese capital

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The inclusion of an amnesty provision, which could cover the worst possible crimes, in Nepal’s new Truth, Reconciliation and Disappearance Ordinance, will make it impossible for thousands of victims of gross human rights violations to obtain justice, a coalition of international human rights organizations...

Opposition supporters protesting against appointment of chief justice as caretaker PM clash with police in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Ringed by an endless stream of pilgrims at an ancient temple in Kathmandu, Hindu holy man Mahant Ramnaresh Giri sat naked and puffed on a pipe filled with cannabis, his body smeared with ash as he took part in Nepal's biggest annual religious event.

NEPAL LETTER:They look like rice terraces, neat steps of land carved all the way up the steep hillsides, the mighty snow-capped Himalayan mountain range in the distance. But go closer and it’s not rice but potatoes that are growing in this lush valley about an hour’s journey north of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.

Chhurim Sherpa, (left) from Kathmandu, is the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice in one season. The 29-year-old was delighted as she was presented a Guinness World record for her amazing feat.

A six-month stint at an orphanage in Kathmandu has turned into a life-changing commitment, relates SARAH MURPHY

Obama lays out modest foreign policy vision Top news: President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he will withdraw 34,000 troops from Afghanistan within a year, seek aggressive action to combat climate change, and negotiate a trade deal with Europe, laying out a modest foreign policy agenda in the first State of the Union address of his second term. Along with...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of wildlife experts carrying sophisticated cameras began combing the forests in Nepal's southern plains on Tuesday in the Himalayan nation's biggest campaign yet to count the number of endangered tigers roaming in its national parks.

KATHMANDU - A wild animal thought to be a jackal dragged away and devoured a two-year-old girl in Nepal's southern plains, police said on Sunday, in a rare fatal attack targeting humans. The toddler was snatched as she played alone by a sugarcane plantation near her home in the district of Mahottari, bordering India, on Saturday and found dead the following morning by...

Kathmandu (dpa) - In Nepal sind bei einem Busunglück 29 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Der Bus kam auf einer Bergstrecke im dichten Nebel von der Straße ab und stürzte in die Tiefe. 13 Menschen konnten...

Headline Title:  UK arrest highlights Nepal’s failure to address torture 04 January 2013 The arrest in the UK of a Nepali man on allegations of torture is a welcome indication of the UK’s readiness to comply with its international obligations in...

Elephant sprint races, football matches (bottom right) and even an elephant beauty pageant (bottom left) have been held during an annual festival in Nepal to promote conservation.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Soldiers in Nepal are on the hunt for a wild elephant after it strayed into villages in the southern part of the Himalayan nation and killed four people in three months, officials said on Monday.

A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Malla, was of a kind that may return to the Himalayas, seismologists reported on Sunday.

Per Rollstuhl in den Gegenverkehr: Für Behinderte ist die nepalesische Hauptstadt Kathmandu ein Wagnis. Zum Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung werben Organisationen des Himalaya-Landes ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Fifteen Nepali artists were closeted for a month with a heap of 1.5 metric tons (1.7 tons) of trash picked up from Mount Everest. When they emerged, they had transformed the litter into art.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Wrapped in white and with their heads shaven, retired Gurkha soldiers sat cross-legged on the stems of dried rice plants for three days of symbolic and traditional mourning,...

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ was slapped at a Diwali tea party in Kathmandu on Friday. Maoist cadres attacked and injured the attacker, Padam Kunwar, before he was arrested. “We do not know why the attack took place,” said Kathmandu district police chief Jaya Bahadur Chand. “We are investigating it.”

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Months of political deadlock have plunged Nepal into a budget crisis that could leave 500,000 workers unpaid from this week in the latest sign of the country's woes since civil war ended in 2006.Nepal has not had a parliament or fully functioning government since June and has been surviving on emergency funds which run out on November 15 unless rival...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Apart from a small bust of Chairman Mao beside his armchair, Nepali Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai flaunts no trappings of his revolutionary past: these days he talks of foreign investment, infrastructure projects and double-digit growth.

The severed head of the latest victim, a 4-year-old boy, was found in the forest a kilometer from his home this morning, said Kamal Prasad Kharel, the police chief of the Baitadi district, an area 373 miles west of Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU  - An Israeli and two Europeans died trekking in the Himalayas on Thursday, Nepal police said, adding to a spiralling toll in one of the worst recent years for the world’s highest mountain range. The 25-year-old Israeli man fell from a bridge while in separate incidents a German woman, 53, developed altitude sickness and an Austrian man, 62, had a heart attack,...

The Soldier Team took part in a memorial ceremony for Canadian climber Shriya Shah-Klorfine, who had died on Everest this past spring

Clad in pink, blue and yellow clothes, more than 250 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes took part in a sports festival in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, at the weekend.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Clad in pink, blue and yellow clothes, more than 250 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes took part in a sports festival in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, at...

Hundreds of athletes Friday took part in Asia's first-ever sports tournament for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, organisers said.

Hundreds of athletes Friday took part in Asia's first-ever sports tournament for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, organisers said.

Flying into the world's tallest mountain range into the postage-stamp airport in Lukla, Nepal is a stunning sight, but you can't forget the underlying danger.

Shaun Francis, the Chair of True Patriot Love, talks about Kathmandu's strange timezone and starting an expedition to the world's most famous mountain

David Macdonald explains the majesty of Kathmandu

The True Patriot Love expedition — 13 soldiers, a doctor and 10 civilians — will eventually climb to the Mount Everest base camp

El proyecto pictórico está formado por 14 retratos de otros tantos rostros infantiles, en donde se esconden los relatos de 14 familias tibetanas exiliadas