(AP video produced by Javier Arciga) This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand ...

an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin. Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. These include nearly all ...

NEW DELHI: The South-East Asia Region including India, reported the highest number of cancers of lips and oral cavity, uterine cervix, and childhood cancers among all World Health Organisation ...

With a population of only 3,107, Menaggio is the quintessential Italian dream. Together with Varenna and Bellagio, this town forms what is known as the triangle area, which attracts many tourists ...

Before our times, physical maps published with explanatory texts often betrayed their creators’ assumptions. An 18th-century Japanese map of the world observed of Brazil: “The inhabitants of ...

whereas name changes are usually a long bureaucratic process — but it's not the first time Google Maps has changed place names and world borders for different users in different locations ...

The UK population is set to grow by five million people in 10 years, despite death rates being projected to overtake birth rates in that time. All of the forecast population growth is due to ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

Here are the 15 biggest cities in Africa, ranked by population. Population estimates have been referenced from official government census figures, or if unavailable, from the most recent U.N. data.

The report said, "Consumption pools are shifting from North America and Western Europe to emerging Asia and India.... Developing countries will provide a growing share of global labour supply and of ...

These peculiar features of ancient Greek writing may seem odd to the modern reader. However, they were not oversights or a lack of grammatical knowledge. Rather, they were practical adaptations to the ...