Spending your vacation in an historic landmark property once occupied by royals or famous writers ought to cost top dollar -- but thanks to the UK-based charity The Landmark Trust, you can do so for around $25 per person per night.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday that Turkey's approach to democracy and the rule of law are "deeply problematic" to the country's future cooperation with the European Union.
Last year's Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) show wasn't bad but the greatest natural light display in a decade is coming this December, according to NASA.
Leaders of Turkey and Israel find themselves inside the walls of the Kremlin in the next two days as President Vladimir Putin tries to entrench Russia's resurgent role in the Middle East.
Over a century ago, in a Washington town called Bellingham, a xenophobic mob attacked a community of recent immigrants from India. Most of the victims were Sikhs.
An outbreak of yellow fever in rural Brazil is raising concerns that the disease could spread across borders to the US, like Zika, say two health experts writing in an essay published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
More clues are emerging about the fate of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, more than two years after the plane disappeared with 239 people on board.
Two Malaysians have left Pyongyang two days after North Korea said no Malaysians would be allowed to leave amid a diplomatic row between the two countries.
In the movie "Hidden Figures," Janelle Monáe's character Mary Jackson petitions a Virginia State Court judge for the right to enroll in engineering classes at the local all-white high school. She reminds the judge that he was the first in his family to join the Armed Forces and to attend college. Now he can help her be the first female engineer at NASA. "Your Honor," Jackson says, "out of all the cases you're going to hear today, which one is going to matter one hundred years from now? Which one is going to make you the first?"
A military hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul has come under attack, with at least two people killed and seven others injured, according to government officials.
A 14-year-old Danish boy doing research for a history class found the wreckage of a German World War II plane with the remains of the pilot in the cockpit.
Women around the world are marking International Women's Day on Wednesday, with some wearing red to work and others skipping work to go on strike or to join rallies calling for equal rights.
