As tequila tops global sales charts, a new book uncovers the spirit’s revolutionary roots and the family feuds that shaped ...

A group of 133 Catholic cardinals from 71 different countries are convening on Wednesday for a secretive conclave that will ...

Climate change is causing Bergen’s weather patterns to shift, bringing more rain and periods of more intense rain. But the ...

Zhao Xintong made history at the Men’s World Snooker Championship this week when he became the first player from any Asian country to win the title. The win also marks Zhao’s return to the sport after ...

US Christian nationalists have adopted a leading pastor of the anti-Nazi resistance as a patron saint of faith-based politics ...

April 30, 2025, marked 50 years since the fall of Saigon in South Vietnam. Just seven days later — marked today — a plane carrying 70 refugees landed at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Arkansas. By the ...

Indian jets launched airstrikes on nine sites inside Pakistan overnight in retaliation for a militant group’s attack on mostly Indian tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago. The ...

Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is in France for talks. French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s willing to help the new government, as long as it respects the rights of all Syrians. In ...

Four men were sentenced today for attempting to smuggle more than 5,000 ants out of Kenya. Their punishment is a fine of $7,700 or a year in jail. Why would anyone risk smuggling that many ants? As ...

Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...

Trump administration officials told reporters this week that they’re planning to send a group of migrants to Libya aboard a US military plane. But today, Libya’s government, as well as militias that ...

The manatees of the Amazon region have the familiar nostrils and sad eyes of their Florida relatives but they are smaller — and they’re endangered. Ongoing hunting and the growing effects of climate ...