+Teamgeist, German for "team spirit," is being touted as the most technologically advanced soccer ball ever, but some experts question how it's going to perform.

Modern imaging technology is revealing obscured text within charred sections of Europe's oldest surviving manuscript.

If 666 is the "number of the Beast," 6/6/06 could be a beastly day, with mothers-to-be wary of giving birth, scary movies opening, and believers awaiting rapture.

Some 11,400-year-old figs found in Israel may be the fruit of the world's first known form of farming, dating back a thousand years before grains were domesticated.

The award-winning documentary is the first commercially released film shot by soldiers in the field and the first to be directed via email and instant messenger.

Explore Roosevelt National Park, and see how time has shaped the majestic landscapes the former U.S. president first roamed in 1883.

What mountains cross much of Wales from the Irish Sea to the Bristol Channel? The answer made 12-year-old Bonny Jain this year's champ.

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How accurate are the claims made in the new documentary about global warming? We ask the experts.

Hunting the hunters, Tibetan men have risked their lives to guard rare antelopes whose wool is worth more than cashmere. Their story is the dramatic basis of a new film.

Tour a distillery in the Mexican town of Tequila, and discover how distillers use centuries-old traditions to make the town's famous namesake drink.

The last vestiges of the former Yugoslavia vanished today, as people in Montenegro voted narrowly to split from neighboring Serbia, according to early poll results.

Analysis of ancient human skulls from the Neolithic period shows that Britain was once a brutal place to live.

The two species' ancestors may have interbred and produced hybrid offspring, complicating and prolonging the evolutionary split, a new study says.

Thirty-three monkeys that were once on sale in an African meat market are now safe in their new homes at zoos around the U.S.

Fears of attacks on ancient sculptures such as the Sphinx are on the rise now that the country's top Islamic authority has condemned statues.