On an October afternoon in 1939, German bombers launched a surprise raid over Scotland, met by the iconic Spitfire for the ...

Archaeologists in Scotland uncovered a ceremonial complex with jet-bead jewelry, ancient tools, and the remains of one of the oldest known houses in Britain. These findings offer a glimpse into ...

Enter the Caribbean, clad in its best high-season apparel, and offering great hotels, sugary beaches and cloudless skies. Elsewhere, the Maldives offers classic fly-and-flop escapism, while Buenos ...

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

No one knows exactly when Gramma the Galápagos tortoise was born on that volcanic chain of Pacific islands. What is clear, though, is that she lived through the fall of […] ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and ...

The on-and-off volcanic eruption that’s been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii’s Big Island for nearly a year is back ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds ...

LONDON—The U.K. has long been torn between two mutually exclusive desires: Voters want European levels of welfare with American levels of taxation. By accident or design, that debate is slowly being ...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WTNH) — Bobby Sanchez was sworn in as New Britain’s 41st mayor on Wednesday. Sanchez’s win was one of many Democratic victories across the state on Nov. 4, and a historic one for ...