Call it the great portage. Hundreds of canoes from around the globe and some dating back centuries are being cleaned, catalogued, documented and prepared for an...
DES MOINES, IOWA – A US$1.1 billion lottery prize will be on the line Friday night as numbers are drawn for the Mega Millions game. The...
DES MOINES, IOWA – A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the...
Miners in Angola have unearthed a rare pure pink diamond that is believed to be the largest found in 300 years, the Australian site operator announced...
Nikola Milutinov Tesla was born in the small rural village of Smiljan in what is modern-day Croatia. He was born at the stroke of midnight on...
ROME – Italy has been so successful in recovering ancient artworks and artifacts that were illegally exported from the country it has created a museum for...
A Rolex watch worn by a British prisoner during the real-life “Great Escape” from the Nazi Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp sold for $189,000 on Thursday...
What links Adele, Rihanna and Princess Eugenie? Unbelievable wealth and personal connections to Prince Harry, yes, but they also all sport tattoos behind their A-list ears....
The age at which people can buy tobacco in England should rise by one each year until it becomes a “smoke-free” society, a government-commissioned review recommended....
A recent study out of Japan has found that pet cats may have the ability to learn and recognize the names of other felines they live...
Qantas has taken an important step toward launching Project Sunrise, its long-dreamed-of goal to establish direct flights between Australia and the cities of New York and...