PARIS, Marlowe Hood - Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse a metre (three feet) away with enough precision and speed to hunt...
CAIRO- A 3,000-year-old ornately painted coffin arrived back in Egypt on Saturday, 125 years after it was smuggled out the country, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said.
Hawass, who accompanied the...
HEXHAM- Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches Saturday.
As night fell, 500 gas flames...
NEW DELHI- Fashion TV was to be pulled off the air in India on Friday after falling foul of obscenity laws by broadcasting bare-breasted models during a show last year, officials said.
The...
LONDON - Dozens of decapitated skeletons have been unearthed in southern England believed to be those of 1,000-year-old Vikings, scientists said Friday.
The macabre discovery in June of a neatly...
LOS ANGELES - A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, the sale of which is strictly banned in the United States,...
WASHINGTON- A scan of brain activity can effectively read a person's mind, researchers said Thursday.
British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain...
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - The United States said Thursday that the battle for human rights is increasingly being fought on the Internet as China, Iran and other states try to block access by...
WASHINGTON - A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel....
GAZA CITY - Israeli aircraft hit two targets in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding several people, the army and witnesses said.
In the first strike, they blew up a metal workshop in the...
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