In a schoolyard of rural northeastern Syria, boys and girls break out into giggles watching Charlie Chaplin’s pranks. It’s a rare treat thanks to a mobile cinema that’s roving through the countryside.
Late in the summer of 1939, crowds of strangers started showing up at Rhoda Wise’s house next to a city dump in Ohio after she let it be known that miracles were occurring in her room.
A man discovered a 50-year-old letter in a bottle from the Russian navy on the shores of western Alaska. Tyler Ivanoff found the handwritten Russian letter early this month while gathering firewood near Shishmaref about 966 kilometers northwest of Anchorage, television station KTUU reported.
Atlanta’s scorching August heat didn’t stop Megan Nelson from slipping on a long faux fur coat and dressing up like Cruella de Vil for her first Doggy Con convention, a pet event for costumed canines inspired by the upcoming Dragon Con convention.
In the searing heat of Dubai, some of the world’s top racehorses are being swathed in freezing nitrogen mist to boost their performance.
Social media users are fueling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend...
Russia Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International...
British supermarkets are starting to go “nude.”
U.S. scientists announced early Friday they have successfully built functional heart parts out of collagen with a 3-D bioprinter, using a breakthrough...
Diet is already a key part of managing diseases like diabetes and hypertension, but new research adds to a growing body of evidence that it could help cancer...
Among the daily rush of customers ordering coffee to go in Hamra’s Rossa Cafe sits a group of men in their 70s and 80s
Ziad al-Maamari grew up helping his father build a castle.
An unmanned spacecraft India launched last month began orbiting the moon Tuesday as it approaches the far side to study previously discovered water deposits.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet - or at least on Facebook.
Bathed in red neon light, hundreds of prostitutes ply their trade from behind windows in the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam - and that’s how they want...
A HBO miniseries featuring Soviet-era nuclear nightmares has sparked global interest in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and boosted tourism in Lithuania.
If you like gawking at breathtaking sports cars with enormous engines, flowing aerodynamics and expensive carbon-fiber bodies, then you are in the right place...
The most expensive new car ever sold is a one-off Bugatti luxury sports car that has gone for 16.7 million euros ($18.9 million).
See your “Friends” on the big screen.
This is where Earth’s refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.
Some fashionistas pride themselves on having an outfit for every occasion.
Direct observations from a NASA space telescope have for the first time revealed the atmospheric void of a rocky, Earth-sized world beyond our own solar...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a “cluster” of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use after...
Members of rival Iraqi biker gangs, clad in studded leather and black berets, burst out of their semicircles to break dance, their tattoo-covered arms waving...
Lee Ching-hei runs a pop-up store in Hong Kong.
Tiffany & Co. is launching its first comprehensive jewelry collection for men in October as it seeks to diversify its traditional customer base.
A pair of Nike track shoes from the 1972 Olympic trials has sold for $50,000.
Researchers in Singapore have invented “smart” clothing they say can boost signals and save battery life on wireless devices such as headphones and smart...
While two U.S. opera houses immediately canceled performances by famed tenor Placido Domingo following sexual harassment allegations, European opera houses...
How do you create a space conducive to creative thinking?
As soon as the sun is up, people in southern Tunisia rush out to buy a glass or bottle of legmi, a coveted date palm drink that is too delicate to be sold far...
From a cartoon about child workers to an HBO miniseries, Brazil is turning to television and social media to shed light on modern slavery and change attitudes...
Oyster farmers in western France have sacrificed a seafood feast and put a megamollusk weighing 1.44 kilograms back in the water after naming it “Georgette”...
Parisians need no longer go to the beach, in the time-honored August tradition, to hear the plaintive cries of seagulls, but the birds’ growing cacophony is...
As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America’s morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown.
In 2008, Peter Bellerby set out to buy his father a high quality handmade globe as an 80th birthday present.
Walid al-Aqqad’s Gaza home would be the envy of many an antiquities collector.
The Italian tomato is prized around the world, but its reputation has soured in recent years over reports of Mafia infiltration, slave labor and toxic fires...
Do video games trigger violent behavior?