The desperate residents of a besieged district of Damascus were expected to run out of food on Sunday, leaving 18,000 people facing starvation and leading relief agencies to declare the crisis “unprecedented in living memory.” Food packages had not been delivered to the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp for 10 days, ...
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the prizefighter whose racially tinged wrongful murder conviction made him a symbol of injustice and a pop ...
At least three people were killed in a gunfight in the early hours of Sunday near a Ukrainian city controlled ...
You have heard of the Ford Model T, the famed early 20th-century automobile that was the forerunner of the modern car. But how about the Model T shark? Scientists have announced the discovery of the impeccably preserved fossilized remains of a shark that lived ...
As head of his village, Prajob Naowa-opas battled to save his community in central Thailand from the illegal dumping of toxic waste by filing petitions and leading villagers to block trucks carrying the stuff — until a gunman in broad daylight fired four shots ...
Cerro Armazones is a crumbling dome of rock that dominates the parched peaks of the Chilean coastal range north of Santiago. Even the views look alien, with the surrounding boulder-strewn desert bearing a remarkable resemblance to the landscape of Mars. Dramatic change is on ...
Looking the odd one out may seem like a recipe for mating disaster, but it could make you more attractive to the opposite sex. So says a study that may also explain why fashions change. Researchers in Australia used beards to test a theory ...
A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart. Helen Felumlee, of Nashport, Ohio, died at the age of 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth, died the next morning. The couple’s ...
Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs. For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the experimental robot — now stuck on a pedestal — is going mobile at the ...
The history of oncology is rife with reports of patients with advanced cancer who staged miraculous recoveries. Now scientists are starting to use sophisticated DNA sequencing technology to determine if these “exceptional responders” carry gene variations that can lead to new treatment approaches, better ...
On a warm spring day, Floribeth Mora was in her bed waiting to die from a seemingly inoperable brain aneurysm when her gaze fell upon a photograph of Pope John Paul II in a newspaper. “Stand up,” Mora recalled the image of the pope ...
It is part Soviet theme park, part wacky anti-Western wonderland. Stuck to the barricades outside the “Donetsk People’s Republic” are several caricatures of U.S. President Barack Obama. There is Obama as Hitler, complete with mustache. There is Obama, Bonaparte and the Fuhrer, and the ...
U.S. geologists have uncovered a preglacial tundra landscape preserved for 2.7 million years far below the Greenland ice sheet. Glaciers scrape everything off any given plot of land — even the top layer of bedrock — so scientists expressed great surprise that they had ...
The extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down syndrome throws a wrench into the workings of all the other chromosomes as well, according to a study that surprised its authors. Using data from a set of otherwise identical twins, one with the condition ...
Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters — even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied. A ...
