Rome: A black-walled banqueting hall decorated with scenes from Greek mythology, where ancient Romans feasted by candlelight, has been unearthed in Pompeii, the...
Rome: A black-walled banqueting hall decorated with scenes from Greek mythology, where ancient Romans feasted by candlelight, has been unearthed in Pompeii, the...
NEW YORK: Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe. Mattel has unveiled a double-sided board that features both...
Kampong Speu, Cambodia: Villagers aboard Cambodian-flagged wooden carts ran their oxen at high speed on Sunday in an annual race to safeguard the...
New York: A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote's seminal novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary...
Tokyo: Japanese football comic "Captain Tsubasa" ended its 43-year print serialisation on Thursday, but its creator said the stories that inspired Lionel Messi...
Munich, Germany: Some 366 clocks cover the walls in the living room of 76-year-old Werner Stechbarth's apartment in Munich, the haul from a...
Jill Biden has written a children's picture book about her White House cat, Willow, that will be published in June. Simon & Schuster...
Doha, Qatar: At a university in southern Philippines, students turned heads with their unconventional headgear, sporting characters like Minecraft's Creeper, Pokemon's Pikachu, farm...
"The Cancer Detectives,” a new American Experience documentary on PBS, tracks the fascinating and surprisingly frustrating backstory of the Pap smear, a cervical...
LAS VEGAS: Aura, a humanoid robot that works inside the Sphere, wants visitors to the immersive entertainment venue to know her kind comes...
Like many 10-year-olds, Madeline Landecker is fascinated by insects. At her family’s small farm near Little Rock, she enjoys watching ants and ladybugs...
Washington: Whether dogs truly understand the words we say -- as opposed to things like tone and context clues -- is a question...
Lisse: The world’s biggest tulip garden opened to the public yesterday for its 75th edition, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to...
Santiago: It's still dark out, but Chilean lawyer Gonzalo Chiang and his dog Sam are already out jogging and collecting rubbish in Santiago's...
The Hague: Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Van Gogh and works...
Austin: At South by Southwest -- the gargantuan Texas festival for cinema, music and tech -- artists this year embraced virtual reality as...
New York: Humanity has returned to pre-pandemic levels of development, the United Nations said on Wednesday, but it warned that the global recovery...
BRASÍLIA: Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed. Emergency room arguments over medication....
