A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's landscape.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turns 90 on Saturday, still holding authoritarian power in tiny pockets of the West Bank, ...

Watch the thrilling 'Fallout' Season 2 trailer as Lucy and the Ghoul prepare for war in New Vegas, premiering December 17.

After my last WiFi-enabled smart scale broke and refused to connect to the Internet anymore, I sought something simpler and cheaper to replace it. The old scale had all sorts of fancy service ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the country’s Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by taking action a ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

Tanzania’s traditional allies, including Canada, are questioning the fairness of a disputed election that delivered a ...

Residents say they are fed up after paying more than £2,000 towards the maintenance of a children's play area, which is "just a log". Homeowners in Cresswell Road in Swanscombe, Kent, have been paying ...