A prehistoric cave in southern France dubbed Sistine Chapel has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list. The 1,000 drawings…
Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year to honor the United States flag and to commemorate the flag’s…
Evidence of the world that crashed into the Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon has been found…
On June 6, 1944, US, British and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France in Normandy. The landings were…
The Solar Impulse 2 plane has made its inaugural flight. The solar-powered plane will be taken on a round-the-world journey…
According to a new assessment from ESA's CryoSat spacecraft, Antarctica is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice a year…
Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered fossilized bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the…
A NASA study revealed that West Antarctica’s key glaciers are in an irreversible retreat. The study analyzed 40 years of…
Deka Arm - a robot arm capable of picking up delicate objects - has been approved for use by US…
Pope Francis approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Pope Paul VI - who died in 1978 after a…
A cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex with a very long nose has been nicknamed Pinocchio rex. The ferocious carnivore is 9m-long…
Pope Francis has declared Popes John Paul II and John XXIII saints in a ceremony attended by hundreds of thousands…
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII’s canonization is bringing attention to the complex process of becoming a saint,…
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII are to be declared saints at an unprecedented open-air ceremony in Rome…
A baby Java mouse-deer has been born at Bioparc Fuengirola in southern Spain. Java mouse-deer is one of the smallest…
Hitachi has announced it will install an elevator capable of reaching speeds of 45mph (72km/h) into a skyscraper in Guangzhou,…
An Irish-UK scientific team managed to make "supermaterial" graphene using a kitchen blender. Graphene is thin, strong, flexible and electrically…
Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22 with worldwide events to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first…
Easter's Holy Fire ceremony has been celebrated at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The Holy Fire is…
A Pakistani library in Islamabad has been renamed after Osama bin Laden, the former al-Qaeda chief. The Islamic seminary for…
A Belgian study found that artists have structurally different brains compared with non-artists. Study participants' brain scans revealed that artists…
NASA scientists say they witnessed what could be the birth of a new moon in the rings of Saturn. Named…
Interactive artist Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled glow in the dark road markings on a 500 m stretch of highway in…
A UN report on climate change released today in Berlin says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.…
China National Petroleum Corporation – the country's biggest oil company - has been blamed for water contamination affecting over 2.4…