A mystery telephone bidder purchased a piece of history in the form of "Checkpoint Bravo" -- once one of the busiest crossing points between East and West Berlin -- in an auction Thursday.
Greek police charged two U.S. tourists with desecrating the dead on Thursday after they found six human skulls in their hand luggage at Athens international airport, a police official said.
A car said to have been a gift from Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king will be repaired and used to drive visitors around the grounds of a palace museum, a government official said on Thursday.
What do women want? It's a question men have been asking since the first cave man discovered giving his mate a fur coat made her happy and warm. How to delve into the mind of the unknowable, and the unpredictable?
Vocational schools that typically attract problematic, underachieving junior and senior high schoolers, are seeing a different kind of student.
Student Wang Yuelu was surprised when her boyfriend took her to an expensive restaurant in an ancient Beijing courtyard, because she thought he was a penny pincher.
The growing number of women drivers is influencing the direction of the country's automobile industry.
Jagdishji Vaghela is one of hundreds of thousands of farmers standing in the way of India's breakneck economic expansion.
Violent video games like "Call of Duty" can help trigger-happy players make decisions faster in real life, according to a study released on Wednesday.
With Alexander Pushkin's framed visage on the wall and creased editions of fellow Russian literary giants on dusty shelves, Natela Chokhonelidze's office recalls a very different era at Georgia's State University.
Ultra-smartphones that react to your moods and televisions that can tell it's you who's watching are in your future as Intel Corp's top technology guru sets his sights on context-aware computing.
An ice cream parlor in St. Louis edged past a hotel in Salt Lake City and a park in New York when it was selected as having the finest restrooms in the United States.
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