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WWE NXT: Keith Lee earns North American title match, Rhea Ripley begins her reign
Keith Lee battled Dominik Dijakovic, Damian Priest and Cameron Grimes in a Fatal 4-Way match to earn a title shot at Roderick Strong's North American Championship on WWE NXT.
Ukrainian Boeing 737 airliner crashes after takeoff in Iran, killing 176
Investigators have located the "black boxes" from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran Wednesday and killed all 176 people aboard, state media reported.
Koreans in Nazi Germany shed light on complex past
Koreans who lived in Berlin during the period of Nazi rule briefly thrived under Adolf Hitler despite the catastrophic ambitions of the Third Reich, according to a U.S.-based Korean studies...
North Carolina man wins a second jackpot from same lottery game
A North Carolina man collected a $233,415 jackpot from a lottery drawing just two and a half years after collecting $70,539 from the same game.
Users slam Parks Canada for online campsite reservation glitches
Frustrated would-be campers took to Twitter on Wednesday to complain to Parks Canada that its online booking site crashed, froze or just didn’t work when they tried to snag camping...
100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin. An international research team of paleontologists and biologists...
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle 'step back' from royal family
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will create a "progressive new role" within the monarchy and split their time between the U.K. and North America.
Scotsman Colin Finnie disappeared during solo 5,000-mile sea voyage, wife says
A Scottish businessman who was attempting a solo sea voyage that spanned 5,000 miles from Australia to Egypt is now missing, his wife said.
100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin.
Most meat eaters support veganism as 'ethical' and good for the environment
Most meat eaters support veganism as 'ethical' and good for the environment
3-D movies reveal how cuttlefish determine distance when striking at prey
While cuttlefish wearing glasses is an unexpected sight, a University of Minnesota-led research team built an underwater theater and equipped the cephalopods with specialized 3-D glasses to investigate how cuttlefish...
If trees could talk: Using historic log structures to map migration of Europeans, Native Americans
Researchers are using tree-ring dating to determine not only when trees were cut down to build historic log buildings in the region but also what the forests were like before...
Early humans were making tools out of stone more than 1 million years ago
New research suggests the decisions made by tool makers among Early Stone Age hominins accounted for both the requirements of specific tasks and the unique mechanical advantages offered by different...
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according to a new study by...
Indonesia president visits Natuna islands amid dispute with China
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Natuna Regency, an archipelago of hundreds of islands in the southern South China Sea on Wednesday, according to local press reports.
Halsey announces North American dates for 'Manic' world tour
Halsey announced on Wednesday the concert dates for the North American leg of her "Manic" world tour.
Iran religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Missile strikes were only 'slap on face' for U.S.
Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the missile attack on a pair of U.S.-held military bases in Iraq Wednesday, warning that the strikes were merely a "slap on the...
100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin. An international research team of palaeontologists and biologists...
Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in Sask. man's home for decades
Thanks to an intrepid rescue more than 60 years ago, original blueprints of a famously cancelled Canadian military project are now on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada...
Researcher helps fill in the family tree of the shy mountain beaver
The long-held notion that today's muskrat-sized mountain beavers are primitive and look like their ancestors is wrong, says the University of Oregon's Samantha Hopkins.
North Korea denounces U.S. actions in Iraq
North Korea state media condemned the United States for the drone attack that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, calling the event a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty."
The Vikings erected a runestone out of fear of a climate catastrophe
Several passages on the Rök stone—the world's most famous Viking Age runic monument—suggest that the inscription is about battles and for over a hundred years, researchers have been trying to...
Chinese paddlefish declared extinct
A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences in Wuhan, China has declared the Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) as extinct. In their paper published in the journal...
Iran religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Missile strikes were only 'slap on face' for U.S.
Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the missile attack on a pair of U.S.-held military bases in Iraq Wednesday, warning that the strikes were merely a "slap on the...
Researcher helps fill in the family tree of the shy mountain beaver
The long-held notion that today’s muskrat-sized mountain beavers are primitive and look like their ancestors is wrong, says the University of Oregon’s Samantha Hopkins. Instead, the large rodent living mostly...
New version of fossil-recognition app now includes Cretaceous period
In 2015, when researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum released the free Digital Atlas of Ancient Life app, they didn't know what kind of...
Ukrainian Boeing 737 airliner crashes after takeoff in Iran, killing 176
Investigators have located the "black boxes" from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran Wednesday and killed all 176 people aboard, state media reported.
Stephen Fry to host BBC's 'Fantastic Beasts' special
BBC One is working with Warner Bros. and London's Natural History Museum on a one-hour, television special called "Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History."