Radicondoli, near Siena, hopes its housing incentives will bring life back to empty homes — and halt decades of population decline.

Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base of Mount Everest. The severe weather struck during a weeklong ...

A hiker who rushed to descend before snow blocked the way said that others still on the mountain told him the snow was 3 feet ...