Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Nina McGehee's journey to uncover the art also helped her understand the emotional weight her family carried with them when ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

Gülay Türkmen is a sociologist who has been researching religion, ethnicity, migration, and diversity in the Middle East and ...

A 62-year-old tennis fan was taken to the hospital after an advertising banner fell on her during the Halle Open in Germany ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Gold is extending yesterday's 1.4% loss, the largest pullback in a month, to trade briefly below last Friday's low (~$3380).

A secretive organization is training children in nationalist ideology, drawing on the legacy of banned neo-Nazi groups. With ...

Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.

Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, is the main legislative body, where the ruling parties have a majority, while the upper house Bundesrat represents Germany's 16 federal states.

The upper deck offers views of the surrounding ... and good cheer that defines German hospitality. What makes East Side particularly special is how it brings people together. At long communal tables, ...

but also two Michelin-starred sushi restaurants and buzzy restaurants for people-watching that some might even deign to call “hip.” Below, the best restaurants on the Upper East Side—in ...