Miniature masterpieces cascade down the hillside like a tiny European vacation without the jet lag or passport drama. Photo ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.

The backwater areas and river islands create habitats that support wildlife you won’t encounter in most parts of Illinois. For people who enjoy outdoor activities, the Fulton area provides excellent ...

Celebrity doesn't just cast its spell on humans, it seemingly works its magic on monkeys too. Take poor little Punch, a baby macaque abandoned by its mother and bullied and cold-shouldered by other ...

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio believes the world is entering a dangerous and unstable phase where the old financial rules no longer apply. In an essay on X, he wrote that the post–World War II global ...

The large Roman merchant vessel is believed to have sailed from North Africa Italian Ministry of Culture/X Italian police stumbled upon an ancient Roman merchant ship at the bottom of the Ionian Sea ...

Divers found a large Roman merchant ship, possibly from the 4th century AD and believed to have sailed from North Africa Officials kept the discovery secret for months to prevent potential thieves ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --A toddler pool prodigy in England has already broken two Guinness World Records for playing pool and snooker before his third birthday. Jude Owens broke the record for the youngest ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny island just off the coast of Sulawesi (a much larger island in Indonesia ...

For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs. By ...

The press has had a field day packaging US President Donald Trump’s deposal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro as a dramatic example of a new “Donroe Doctrine”: a foreign-policy posture blending ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...