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Archaeologists found containers at the site, which held nearly 2,000-year-old bone fragments of animals that were sold there.

In 1966, George Blake escaped from prison and was later driven to East Berlin inside a wooden box attached under a car.

London's famed Oxford Street was eerily quiet after the mutated COVID-19 strain put the nation under a strict lockdown.

"At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, anxiety-related searches hit a record high on Google as people were searching for answers on...

With its iconic score and glittering scenes, “The Nutcracker” is performed for audiences around the country every year. But the holiday trad...

Pan Am flight 103, the infamous London-to-New York Boeing 747, exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland shortly after takeoff. All 259 people on th...

Los Angeles is being severely impacted from a post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases, as Americans across the country gather for Christma...

The U.S. saw 105,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, a sharp decline from the all-time high a week ago. New cases are beginning to trend do...

President Trump is still not saying whether he will sign the latest $900 billion coronavirus stimulus plan, as federal unemployment benefits...

There were no crowds in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square on Christmas Day, where normally they gather in their tens of thousands to hear the...

The mutated virus strain detected in the United Kingdom has forced as many as 80 countries to shut their borders to the island nation.

The news comes as millions of Americans show no signs they will heed health officials and ring in the New Year safely.

There were 1,241 infections on Christmas Day, the largest daily increase.

For the first time since the Notre Dame cathedral was damaged in fire, a Christmas choir — this time wearing hard hats — rang in the holiday...

More than 120,000 people are being treated for coronavirus in the U.S. With the hospitals already overwhelmed, and concerns about the new, f...

Some question whether the naturally resource-poor Asian nation will be able to wean itself off imported oil and gas.

"Remarkably, a year that has necessarily kept people apart has, in many ways, brought us closer," the queen said.

Nationwide, med-school applications are up 18% from this time last year, making an already competitive process even more so.

"As we prepare to observe the holidays far away from our loved ones, we look down at our precious planet, and it becomes clear how connected...

A new surge in coronavirus cases is threatening much of the South this holiday season. Six states in the region have reported an increase in...

Company admits phishing email while pandemic is causing widespread economic woes was "insensitive." The message was meant to test to see if...

This year his remarks were delivered via livestream from inside the Vatican instead of at the balcony to a crowd of thousands of followers.

Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to run out the day after Christmas. Congress passed another relief bill earlier in t...

Members wore hard hats and protective suits. The medieval Paris landmark suffered a devastating blaze in April 2019.

Passengers will have to show they've tested negative within 3 days of boarding, to try to keep new virus variant out of U.S.