A Red Sox fan on his way home from Yankee Stadium died Wednesday when he tried to climb on top of a Metro-North train and was electrocuted by overhead wires, creating a chaotic situation where riders were trapped for more than two hours, MTA official ...

Sharky's Lounge in Harrison Township is losing its liquor license at the end of the business day today. The Ohio Liquor Control Commission revoked the adult entertainment club's license, according to the Ohio Investigative Unit. Agents with ...

If you aren't fond of spiders, this scene will sound like a nightmare. A 300-metre-long (1,000-foot) field of spiderweb has sprung up in western Greece in the town of Aitoliko.

The country is using oil and gas riches to engineer emission-free vessels

Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders.

In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans

Mexican officials have promised to investigate after a truck filled with 157 bodies ended up dumped in a field as the country struggles with a record murder rate. The bodies were loaded on to the refrigerated lorry in Jalisco state after morgues ran ...

Would you eat a cat or dog? If Congress has its way, consuming our four-legged companions could soon land you a $5,000 fine.

The author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal.

Paul Manafort tried to use misleading charges of antisemitism against a senior Obama administration official to pressure the former president to go soft on his Ukrainian client, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2012, according to documents released on Friday by ...

The snack wouldn’t exist without the help of one furry critter and its unusually sharp teeth.

President Trump late Friday renewed his claim that Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria was doctored, even after receiving widespread criticism for casting doubt on the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Citing a Washington Post report that ment ...

Earnings for UK workers are still lower than they were in 2008, having failed to recover in the 10 years since the financial crisis and millennials are the hardest hit, according to figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. GDP is just 11 per ce ...

New study: Ingesting even a single piece of plastic exposes sea turtles to a 20% chance of death.

Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot