“Eventually she comes over and we had a nice chat and she said, ‘Jaysus I thought you were foreign before you started talking’ [Velker speaks with a broad north Dublin accent]. I said, ‘I was born in ...

COMMENTARY: From war-torn Russia to the quiet strength of family life in America, Aunt Rose’s courage was forged in suffering and sustained by faith and humility.

Ancient burial discoveries in Siberia reveal how Siberian tomb art helps researchers accurately date early rock carvings.

The woman had suffered a head injury that had destroyed her right jaw joint, torn ligaments and thrown her jaw out of ...

A Husky's optimal weather is a snowy day, anywhere from 0 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and they can stay outside for hours. Just ...

IT turns out humans were doing complex surgery on each other much sooner than anyone anticipated. Stunned scientists have discovered that a woman had life-saving surgery on her skull 2,500 years ...

Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...

Aleksandr Shablykin, 32, stabbed his mother Zoya, 52, and three neighbors to death at her home in Gig Harbor, Washington. His sister Anastasia explains the tragic chain of events before the massacre.

The Christians known as viruiuchi prostaky see electricity, cars, higher education and much else as distractions from what ...

A dozen major blackouts and central heating cutoffs across the country have affected hundreds of thousands during a brutal ...

Reporting from Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine is extraordinarily difficult. Connectivity is unreliable, outside journalists have limited access ...

A tourist reaching out to a curious cetacean. A joyous marriage celebration in Iraq. A cowboy hugging his daughter as he ...