Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.
Britain is 10th most congested country in the world as fed-up drivers spend average of 31 hours a year in slow or unmoving traffic.
The Alps Ski Resort was one of South Korea's first winter sports destinations, attracting tens of thousands of skiers every year, until it abruptly shut in 2006.
The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total.
The world's largest annual migration is underway as hundreds of millions of Chinese people head back home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families.
IBTimes UK presents a gallery featuring the best photos of the most creative costumes and masks at this year's Venice Carnival.
An average month's amount of snow fell on Moscow over the weekend, with the depth of the snow reaching 62 centimetres (24.5 inches) in some parts.
IBTimes UK teams up with EyeEm for a photography competition focusing on the clean lines, shapes and compositions of minimalist architecture across the globe.
Ryanair will put a 'Brexit clause' into all tickets for summer 2019, in case a UK-EU deal on aviation is not agreed before the UK leaves the bloc.
Amazon says its "employees can work in an environment that's more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office." Like that's a good thing.
Venice carnival costumes are changing. It's not just fabulous ballgowns for the ladies and black cloaks for the men. Why should the ladies have all the fun?
Re-booking your sunbed will be trialled in the CanaryIslands next month and will be available in 30 hotels this summer.
Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse, often referred to as the "Pope of French cuisine", died aged 91 on 20 January.
Invasion Day rallies to protest against Australia Day, the celebration of the start of white colonisation and persecution of Aboriginal Australians 230 years ago.
Rivers across France keep getting more and more swollen as more and more rain falls on the country,.
Asiana Airlines and a flight attendant have been ordered to repay a former model who suffered the accident in 2014.
Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine as water levels rose at least 3.3 metres (nearly 11 feet) above the normal level.
The Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition provides a powerful insight into the landscapes, wildlife and nature of the planet, and the adventures to be found on it.
One man was killed and at least 11 people were injured when an avalanche, possibly triggered by the eruption of a nearby volcano, engulfed skiers.
Lava fountains gush up 700 metres (2,300 feet) above Mount Mayon's crater and ash plumes tower up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) in the sky.
London Fire Brigade said 1,450 people had to be evacuated from a nearby nightclub and hotel while fire fighters dealt with the leak.
Women's marches were held in many US cities, as well as London, Paris, Rome and Berlin, to mark the first anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration.
In temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius (–22F), believers immersed themselves in cross-shaped holes cut into thick ice covering rivers and lakes.
For four nights, London's dark streets are being lit up by more than 50 light-based artworks across the city as part of the Lumiere arts festival.
Passengers said they were terrorised as the plane began shaking and making loud noises before being diverted to Alice Springs.
Three people were killed in Belgium and the Netherlands, and at least eight people died in Germany as powerful winds ripped roofs off buildings, toppled trees and blew trucks off the road.
Ryanair flight FR7063 forced to land in Santander after woman began screaming and stomping her feet at cabin crew.
Activists on the 1,600-hectare site near the village of Notre Dame des Landes say they have developed it into a utopia.
The once-isolated Himalayan kingdom is changing, and bringing the modern world's problems in its wake.
While getting stranded in a blizzard is nobody's idea of fun, you can never have too many slow-motion videos of dogs jumping to catch snowballs.