Thailand's ethnic Chinese minority pays tribute to their ancient gods with a colorful festival featuring coal walkers, body piercings, and vegetarian food.
Spanish authorities released the captain of a U.S.-based treasure hunting ship after detaining him overnight. In dispute is a sunken treasure—from a shipwreck dubbed the "Black Swan"—worth an estimated 500 million U.S. dollars.
A warmer climate in Greenland has opened up new possibilities for economic development, but it may have negative effects on the island's native people, WWF says.
A new species of plant-eating dinosaur may have been discovered in Patagonia, scientists announced Monday. At 105 feet long (32 meters long), it is one of the largest dino species ever found.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will split the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for spreading the message about the threat to Earth from human-caused global warming.
As rulers in Myanmar (Burma) crack down on dissidents, Buddhist monks are disappearing, a report obtained by AP said on October 11. Are they escaping or being kidnapped?
Despite the danger, Baghdad residents flocked to shops and markets on October 11 to prepare for the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Athens's cutting edge new Acropolis Museum will begin receiving 4,000 ancient works, many of them arriving by crane from the old museum, on October 14.
The mummy of King Tutankhamun will soon go on public display for the first time, exposing the bare face of the boy king, Egyptian officials have announced.
