Extreme cold and calm conditions on Sayram Lake in northwestern China turned it into a surreal, frozen wonderland. Take a ...

In his 1578 book, mathematician and Navy gunner William Bourne wrote that “to make a ship to draw or go but little into the ...

Msgr. James Kelly has been helping people obtain citizenship since he moved to Brooklyn in 1960. His job has never felt more ...

Whether it's bacteria, a city name, or a day of the week, love can be found in unexpected places—including our vocabulary.

The F word. F… U… and no need for that third and fourth letter, the point is made without. Writing the third and fourth letter changes the meaning in no way, it just adds the unpleasant “uch” sound.

El Paso police arrest three Houston men in a "jugging" of a 78-year-old man robbed after followed home from a bank.

Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, was asked by a colleague to have a discussion "without offending human ...

Some of us worry enough about our devotion to our screens. Should we be getting other species hooked on them too?

A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...

Danish director Mads Hedegaard had to invent new languages for the Stone Age epic “Stranger.” “I have a background in ...

By the time he was jailed again, in 1927, a judge at the Derby Assizes was upgrading him to be “the original cat burglar”. Which may not have been strictly true, since the Oxford Dictionary says the ...