Doomsayers fear that a thousand-year-old prayer book found in Ireland predicts chaos in the Middle East. But the real meaning of the find, experts say, was literally lost in translation.

Watch as a new sound energizes the bars and back rooms of Havana, a city already famous for its classic salsa, son, and rumba rhythms.

A remarkably well-preserved, thousand-year-old Book of Psalms has been discovered by a construction worker in an Irish bog, a find archaeologists call "staggering."

Mystery solved? U.S. Civil War submarine H. L. Hunley may have sunk because a lock was removed, breaking a hatch's watertight seal, researchers say.

Not all Hollywood gigs are glamorous. Just ask the snake wrangler who handled the slithering—and often poisonous—stars of the upcoming thriller Snakes on a Plane.

This week: ape meat for sale in U.S., the new parting of the Red Sea, killer kangeroos, having a meaningful day job, and the story behind a photo of an amazing "rainbow."

Invading Anglo-Saxons some 1,600 years ago used segregation and social hierarchy to nearly wipe out the culture and gene pool of native Britons, a new report says.

A study of ancient climate change in the eastern Sahara provides further evidence that the drying desert gave rise to the Egyptian pharaohs.

For more than 150 years, India's trains have been an essential form of transportation across the country. Ride along on the rails that carry four billion people each year.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, and other wild African animals are being slaughtered to feed Africa's—and the West's—appetite for "bush meat."

The active volcano, which sits near Tokyo, erupts every 30 years on average, but has been quiet for the past 300—suggesting a major eruption could be imminent.

With Beirut burning and Lebanon blockaded, go behind the headlines with images of the Islamic militants who sparked the new conflict by kidnapping and killing Israeli soldiers.

Sacred summit, tourist attraction, dangerous volcano. Learn more about Japan's famous Mount Fuji and the cultural traditions meant to stave off the mountain's wrath.

Unless carbon dioxide emissions are cut back, experts warn, the nation's premium wine production may be reduced by 81 percent by the end of the century.

In honor of the King of Thailand's 60th year on the throne, fishers in northern Thailand have promised to stop catching the world's largest freshwater fish.