A rare collection of more than 2,000 species of Chinese fungi, sent to Cornell University for safekeeping after the outbreak of World War II, will soon be on its way back to its native land.
Swine flu started sweeping the globe, a unique Roman artifact was unearthed, and a baby gorilla was found in an animal trafficker's suitcase, as seen in this week's selection of the best news pictures.
A temple filled with broken metal, ivory carvings, and stone slabs engraved with a dead language could cast new light on the "dark age" that was thought to have engulfed the region from 1200 to 900 B.C.
Does your town bring you down? A new U.S. government study reveals regions most prone to "frequent mental distress." Hint: It may not just be the grass that's blue in Kentucky.
A sacred mountain, a Manhattan Project hangar, a famous L.A. hotel, and more may soon disappear, erasing "a piece of our heritage," according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
As the world ponders a global swine flu pandemic, nuns don surgical masks, officials with heat-sensitive cameras scan travelers, and scientists probe pork.
See the New York City island of today--and as it was 400 years ago, when wolves and elk roamed, forests stretched to the horizon, and Native Americans were the only New Yorkers.
Iraq's southern marshes were largely restored after Saddam Hussein drained them following the 1991 Gulf War. But now a drought threatens the ancient wetlands' recovery. Video.
In 1970, the same year as "Bell Bottom Blues" hit the charts, bell-bottomed greens thronged the first Earth Day events, where they learned, chanted, sweeped—and even littered.
