Meet the giant Africa rats with a remarkable skill, which allows them to safely clear large areas filled with deadly landmines.

Iran has dismissed the awarding of an Oscar to the film "Argo" as an "advertisement for the CIA" and a Zionist plot to misrepresent an event arising from the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

McLaughlin Crater is 90.92 km (56.50 mi) in diameter and 2.2 km (1.4 mi) deep with a floor that is well below Martian “sealevel” and contains clays that bear iron and magnesium as well as carbonate minerals that resulted from ancient water’s action o ...

Some prime examples of map porn for all my fellow amateur cartographers to get lost in. Get it?

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders signed a U.N.-mediated deal on Sunday aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and paving the way for the deployment...

The self-declared country of Transnistria clings to its Soviet roots. Located on a sliver of land where the eastern border of Moldova meets Ukraine, Transnistria has its own government, parliament, military, police and postal system, but remains un ...

The first steam engine railway travel took place 209 years ago today. Here, the story of how the Civil War impeded, and then accelerated, the progress of America's trains.

From the Louisiana colony to the California Gold Rush, prostitutes were some of the first women in early American settlements.

Four tips in case you wanted to follow in the footsteps of the $50 million Brussels diamond theft and heist yourself some valuable jewels.

It is a famous saying that Pictures are worth a thousand words, photographers are always in a lookout to create a difference in their captures by clicking innovative pictures.

Opium has crept in and interlaced with Afghan life; a life that has already been destroyed to some extent by war. Opium is the main agricultural cash crop of Afghanistan. There are places where opium has become currency. People use it to buy clothes ...

New assessment concludes efforts by China are threatening country’s economic competitiveness.

When will we see a transparent smartphone? It's a question that's been circulating for years, thanks to films like Minority Report and Iron Man 2 that sparked dreams of a diaphanous mobile future...

In a spectacular fall from political prominence, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal charges growing out of what prosecutors said was a scheme to use $750,000 in campaign funds for lavish personal ...

South Korea unveiled a cruise missile on Thursday that it said can hit the office of North Korea's leaders, trying to address concerns that it is technologically behind its unpredictable

This is a Pope whose doctrinaire conservatism has had an ossifying effect; this is a moment when we will see what other voices there might be left in the Church.

The U.S. is basically an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.

Want to know what it’s like to ride in a self-driving car? In a word: boring. But maybe not as dull as a monotonous commute or soul-sucking drive on the interstate, but that’s the point.

A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction -- the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet's species, including almost every dinosaur -- was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 ...

The White House asked that the picture not be photoshopped. The internet responded with... this.