Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study ...

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Researchers have carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple near Luxor – one of the ancient world’s largest temple complexes and a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

Britain’s Conservatives used to boast they were the world’s most successful political party. Not anymore. The center-right party that governed the U.K. for more than 60 ...

Dennis Trudeau, a prominent and beloved Montreal presence in radio and television who also made his mark on national airwaves, has died.The former CBC reporter, radio host, and news anchor was ...

STOCKHOLM — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the weird world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of ...

Scores of heavy horses have been harnessed together at a heritage festival in southern New South Wales in what organisers say is a world record.

Basketball took Butch Lee to Rucker Park, Marquette, the Olympics and more. Along the way, he quietly became a trailblazer for Hispanic players.

Ink grew up in Columbus and busked the streets of Atlanta for years before making it big writing songs for some of music's biggest stars. Now, she's dropped her first album.