After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...