NEW YORK: Nearly 40 years after it was found by a monk in a Chinese cave, a fossilized chunk of jawbone has been...
NEW YORK: Nearly 40 years after it was found by a monk in a Chinese cave, a fossilized chunk of jawbone has been...
BARSALOGHO, Burkina Faso: Habibou Iba's twin sons are wasting away at the age of seven months after existing on a diet of millet...
RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW DELHI/YAOUNDE: On three continents, three women have taken three different paths to find healthy and tasty solutions to one of...
JOHANNESBURG: Sibusiso Mohlapi, a math and science teacher at Boshoek Primary School in South Africa's North West province, often had empty seats in...
Takoradi, Ghana: Rumbling along the rutted roads of Ghana at the wheel of her giant truck, Abigail Asumadu-Amoah turns heads but keeps her...
Johannesburg: Six psychiatric patients are tied to their beds in two tiny, dimly lit cubicles in the emergency ward of South Africa's biggest...
LONDON: Most British parents think "pink for girls, blue for boys" marketing reinforces messages about what girls and boys can do, according to...
SATARA, India/SINGAPORE: Indian health worker Chhaya Sunil Jadhav banned snack food at home after her daughter, 11, fell sick from eating cheap, salty...
NEW YORK: A Dublin-based company plans to erect "mechanical trees" in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air,...
ROME: Half a century ago farmers grew rice, sesame and pulses on the land around Myint Soe's village in Myanmar. Now only paddy...
Flers, France: Surrounded by mottled brown-and-white cows basking in the Normandy spring sunshine, Patrick Mercier admits his prized raw-milk camembert doesn't come cheap,...
LONDON: Everest climbers could face a starkly different landscape stripped of the dramatic Khumbu Icefall within decades as global warming melts icy landmarks,...
Fes, Morocco: Abdelkader Ouazzani, the last of Morocco's brocade master weavers, has been repeating the same gestures for 63 years in his dilapidated...
Hurghada, Egypt: In serene turquoise waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast, scuba divers ease among delicate pink jellyfish and admire coral -- yet...
Chungju, South Korea: South Korean dirt-bike enthusiasts ditched their city cycles to race custom-built contraptions in a small but determined celebration of motorcycle ...
Washington: Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue, best known for its racy covers of scantily clad bikini models, will feature for the first time...
Marrakech, Morocco: Around an enormous outdoor runway lit with dozens of floating tealights, French label Christian Dior crisscrossed cultures and continents at its...
NEW DELHI: Mountaineers from the Indian army on an expedition in Nepal have found mysterious large footprints in the snow that they think...
