Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will be reborn after he dies, and that the Tibetan Buddhist ...

Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

The EU has awarded Finland around $105 million to help purchase a new icebreaker ship. It’s part of a global race to expand ...

Based on the bestselling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller, the film “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” explores a violent period of transition in Zimbabwe’s history — through the eyes of ...

The village of Taybeh describes itself as the last entirely Christian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But three priests from Taybeh just put out a statement saying that centuries of Christian ...

The Olavide Museum, founded in the late 19th century, contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous diseases, from ringworm to syphilis. The graphic models helped medical ...

Houthi rebels used small boats and bomb-laden drones to strike a Greek-owned cargo ship passing through the Red Sea on Monday. Just a day earlier, they sank another bulk carrier there. Fatima al Asrar ...

A quick look at our top story today: ice — specifically, Arctic sea ice and the efforts to build more icebreaking ships. Russia has the largest fleet of around 40 icebreakers. The US goal is to build ...

They’re shiny metals, can be hard to find and they’re essential to building high-tech equipment — from electric cars to fighter jets. “Rare earth metals” are dominated by one country: China. Once ...

A coalition of farmers, environmentalists and volunteers are coming together to restore the UK’s hedgerows. The UK lost about 50% of these historic boundary lines following WWII. There is also ...

London’s Heathrow airport, one of the busiest in the world, has decided to take a lead from experimental musician Brian Eno. In 1978, Eno created a meditative soundtrack to put you at ease  — in an ...

Europe’s first major heat wave of the summer began in late June, and caused an estimated 2,300 heat-related deaths. A new rapid study has concluded that almost two-thirds of those deaths would not ...