For more than a millennium, a stone pyramid stood watch over the ancient settlement of Ihuatzio in western Mexico. Built by the Purépecha civilisation, one of the few Mesoamerican powers that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Ramiro Aguayo/INAH) Extreme weather events and rising seas are putting precious heritage sites around the world in harm's way. In ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was handed a decisive victory in this week’s Senate primary in the Lone Star State. But as the general election against state Rep. James Talarico (D-Texas) begins to ...

“I would have liked my engagement ring to be set with a sapphire, but I was afraid it would bring me bad luck,” a friend recently told me. Born in India, the bride explained to me that in Vedic ...

In Cyprus where I live, there is a powerful cultural belief in the “evil eye.” If you’ve ever been to the Greek world, you’ve probably seen the blue glass circles, reminiscent of eyes, that dangle ...

Don't look now, but Andy Serkis' Animal Farm is going to serve a purpose. The positively unhinged George Orwell adaptation plays like Babe on acid, Serkis throwing caution to the wind with the ...

Crosby won his last Stanley Cup at age 29. McDavid is 29 now. He'll turn 30 in January. A bunch of the all-time greats have failed to win a Stanley Cup after turning 30 years old. Alex Ovechkin, who ...

House lawmakers advanced a farm bill in March that would spend more than $1 trillion over a decade without putting a dent in the U.S.’ massive spending deluge. The legislation seeks to leave in place ...

The Portland Trail Blazers escaped with a nail-biting win over the Phoenix Suns, 114-110, at Mortgage Matchup Center on Tuesday to advance to the playoffs as the seventh seed. The Blazers will now ...

The U.S. stock-market correction has more downside ahead, according to contrarian analysts. That’s because the mood on Wall Street in March and early April hasn’t been pessimistic enough to trigger a ...

A physicist challenges the core idea of quantum mechanics, that events are truly random. He says a hidden framework of rules may influence outcomes. That’s because our current math makes quantum ...