A pair of Mourning Dove babies fall prey to a bloodthirsty Gila Woodpecker in Tucson Arizona.

Sushruta (c. 7th or 6th century BCE) was a physician in ancient India known today as the “Father of Indian Medicine” and “Father of Plastic Surgery” for inventing and developing...

Commander K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was a 1959 Indian court case where Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover. Commander Nanavati, accused under section 302, was initially…

'I think of my one-man shows as giving the audience a full meal as opposed to giving them chicken wings'

Did you catch this Easter Egg from the Oscar-winning animated film?

They're also recruiting other strays to join their crew

For those that have visited grave-sites of U.S. veterans, you may have noticed coins on the top of headstones that were left behind by previous visitors. A coin left on the headstone is a message to the deceased veteran's family that someone has visited their…

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Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and other literary icons recall Rushdie’s days hiding from the Ayatollah’s wrath.

practices retail companies employ to reduce losses of goods

figure in Jewish mythology

Judicial kickbacks case in Pennsylvania

Early on in the Manhattan Project, the scientists taking part knew that they were pursuing a weapon that could give humankind the unprecedented ability to destroy itself. What they didn't know,...

The strain was potentially from Grateful Dead sound engineer Owsley Stanley.

Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber disintegrated over a small Southern town. An eyewitness recalls what happened next.

Researchers set up "haunted" room to prove an electromagnetic theory of ghost sightings

book by Pedro Carolino

The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based private company. It is self-described as intending to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states.

A sexism scandal in Japan has widened to at least nine universities after a government investigation.

Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest.