Life on earth is divided into five (or sometimes six) kingdoms by scientists. We have so far concentrated mainly on the greatest kingdom, that of animals. In the preceding chapters, we considered the origin of life itself, studying proteins...

Panic-stricken Table Mountain Cableway passengers jumped from a moving cable car, fearing for their lives, in a night of high drama as 900 were left stranded for hours by a power failure.

According to a United Nations report, a growing number of jobless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have turned to drugs since the outbreak of the second intifada (uprising) in 2000 and the Israeli pullout from the territory in the summer of 2005...

A United Nations spokesman has backed the New Zealand Defence Force's (NZDF) denial that New Zealand soldiers damaged what was left of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

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JERUSALEM - Islamic authorities using heavy machinery to dig on the Temple Mount - Judaism's holiest site - have been caught red-handed destroying Temple-era antiquities and what's believed to be a section of an outer wall of the Second Jewish Temple.

May/12/2007: Fires rage all over the United States, closing highways and roads, terrifying entire towns, and causing birds to fall dead from the skies by the thousands

A prominent Egyptian cleric has created controversy by issuing a fatwa that says tiny amounts of alcohol are permissible in Islam.Yusuf al-Qaradawi's fatwa says a level of 0.5% is allowed, whereas most Muslims would say alcohol of any quantity...