Success story: Akanksha cleared the exam after three failed attempts while juggling her family duties.

Atlantic Philanthropies made 1,616 grants to the island of Ireland totalling $1.93 billion. Its departure left a void that has been hard to fill ...

Five years ago, Belarus began enabling people from high-conflict countries to migrate into Europe. Despite high walls and ...

Aghayeva was taken from her university apartment on Thursday, almost one year after Mahmoud Khalil. How is the community coping?

Prasun Chaudhuri journeyed to a small town in Murshidabad that singer and sensation Arijit Singh calls home. Alamgir Hossain joined him there. Their combined jottings ...

The golden trout is native only to California and was named the official state fish by act of the State Legislature in 1947. Originally, the species was found only in a few streams in the icy ...

The most terrifying place in Indiana isn’t a Halloween attraction or a legendary haunted location, it’s Gary, a city where economic collapse has created a landscape so thoroughly abandoned that it ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular "gate" that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...