Two boxers stepped into the ring in the small Thuringian city of Mühlhausen to settle a centuries-old debate: Who can claim title to the world’s oldest bratwurst?
The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick?
Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of ...
Three authors writing about love and loss have made the Booker Prize shortlist for the first time, among the six chosen as contenders for this year's prestigious ...
There is a mixed crowd lining up outside the ICE recruitment fair in Utah, where hundreds of people are eager to join US President Donald Trump's vast deportation ...
So far, scientists have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts. And they hope that deciphering these sounds will improve our understanding of aquatic ...
Decked out with fake crystal chandeliers and velvet sofas, cosmetic surgery clinics in Afghanistan's capital are a world away from the austerity of Taliban rule, ...
Border collie, Meeko, recently took a liking to an injured wild crow that showed up in the yard in Portland, Oregon. Now they’re “thick as thieves".
The runners came from across Kenya, lured by the top prize in the 3 000 meters: the chance to move to the United States and compete for a leading American college. ...
Paleontologists have identified the most complete and oldest known pachycephalosaur, a discovery that pushes back the origin of dome-headed dinosaurs by at least ...
This new attention to terroir is one reason undervalued Chianti Classicos belong on your bucket list of Tuscany’s collectible reds. After all, the wines aren’t the ...
Perhaps no one is having a better New York Fashion Week than Vivian Jenna Wilson. The emerging model and her waist-length strawberry blond hair have walked in four ...
I spent a recent morning immersed shoulder-deep in that humble hayfield with a team of Smithsonian scientists, and they introduced me to a garden of treasures.
Just a few steps away from the golden sands that form one of Ireland’s most popular Victorian-era seaside resorts is Kilcullen Seaweed Baths. Vacationers and weary ...
Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci in recognising her rice jollof, concocted in Lagos last Friday, as the world's ...
Botswana and southern African peers that built much of their prosperity on diamonds are scrambling for alternatives as cheaper, lab-grown stones threaten their economies. ...
New Zealand’s top male rugby players are more likely to develop neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s than the general population, new research has found ...
A mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy portraying a judge beating a protester with a gavel will be removed from the wall outside a London court, according ...
The detention of hundreds of South Koreans in a US immigration raid sent shock waves through the Asian nation and plunged Lee Jae Myung into the biggest diplomatic ...
Tens of thousands of worshipers filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, a London-born computer ...