A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Former Israeli hostage Emily Damari said she was held in an UNRWA center in Gaza. Damari was recently released as part of the hostages for ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

This kind of whiplash foreign policy isn’t new,” one historian said. “Many presidents have changed course on foreign policy — ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

SGT. JACQUELINE C. PARSONS / U.S. MARINE CORPS From atop an armored vehicle, a stinger missile is fired at a small unmanned ...

He made it as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan, and even crossed into today’s India, before dying in Babylon in ...

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister ...