Cardboard coffins in Guayaquil mayor's office, in Ecuador, April 6, 2020 /AFP Ecuador has confirmed 318 deaths from the coronavirus, one of the highest tallies in Latin America. Soaring number
Egyptian authorities reopened the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser to the public on Thursday, after years of renovation.The roughly 60-meter-high (almost 200 feet) pyramid dominates the vast
More than two dozen diplomats are visiting Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi said on Wednesday, as the country tries to reassure foreign allies following several m
The skeleton has been destroyed over time but a sword and scabbard were found inside the grave.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, discussing the anti-abortion march in Washington and telling the pontiff, "You made me a
Players are being introduced before the Skills Competition starts during the NHL All-Star Weekend at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, January 24, 2020. /AP Photo Hilary Knight sto
The man's brain was vitrified, scientists say, meaning it was burned at an intense heat after the volcano erupted in 79 AD.
A sudden collapse of a wooden bench on Monday injured more than 100 people as tens of thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians gathered in Ethiopia's northwestern Gondar city to celebrate epiphany,
Scientists believe more than one billion animals have been killed by bushfires across Australia so far this season."Native mammal, birds and reptiles. That figure is really highly conservative becaus
03:25 In just an hour, 70-year-old Abdurehman Mamat turns an apricot trunk into a traditional wooden spoon.It's something seen on many dinner tables throughout Kalpin county in northwe
The Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 5, 2016. The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paraly
Death toll in the collapse of a six-story building in southwest Cambodia's Kep province on Friday rose to 36, as rescue work had completed, Cambodian Prime Minister Sa
Japanesecompanyisplanningtobuildtheworld'stallestwoodenskyscraper,tomarkits350thanniversaryin2041.SumitomoForestrysaid10%ofthe70-storeyW350towerwouldbesteel,com
Flames once again licked the historic buildings of Britain's capital as a wooden replica of 17th century London went up in smoke to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.