An anonymous donor contributed a sizable sum to the U.K. government in 1928, but the funds were never spent.
Thousands of files related to the JFK assassination remain locked away, 50 years after his death.
Beaches in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward counties are running low on their most characteristic commodity: sand.
As violence in Egypt continues into the weekend, governments have issued travel warnings.
The EU asked the WTO to rule in a dispute over anti-dumping duties imposed by China on imports of steel tubes from Europe.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggests fingerprinting the residents of public housing buildings to make the buildings safer.
A Cairo mosque was cleared after violence in Egypt’s capital has claimed more than 600 lives since Wednesday.
Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s supporters refuse to leave the al-Fath mosque in Cairo.
Both sides in Egypt blame the U.S. for contributing to the problem. In the wake of all the violence, which side should the U.S. be on?
Federal agents announced the arrest of hundreds of MS-13 gang members in a nationwide sweep.
A man in Tibet was sentenced to death after courts found that he had killed his wife and faked her death as a self-immolation.
John Willis, AKA 'Bac Guai John' ('White Devil John'), was a leader of Boston's Ping On gang, prosecutors said.
The Tabasaran are principally Sunni Muslims (a faith they adopted sometime in the 8th or 9th century following the Arab conquest of the region.
Christopher Dillingham allegedly told authorities his 3-year-old Labrador retriever was a gift from his ex-girlfriend and that she "put the devil in it."
The Republican Party is mad at the networks for producing Hillary Clinton documentaries. The backlash is wrongheaded, experts say.
Egypt’s security forces resorted to lethal violence as they attempted to disperse two major sit-ins and several smaller protests.
SSP Hundal is now facing charges of fraud, but he denies he did anything wrong.
China is still taking organs from people it executes, but says it will begin to rely solely on voluntary organ donation by the end of the year.
Despite dozens of lives that were lost, the South African mining industry is still riven by the same disputes.
China is punishing Norway for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo by rejecting its salmon.
For the first time, those in charge of supervising the National Security Agency admit there's only so much they can do.
Scott Tobiassen was allegedly distraught about losing his job when he fatally attacked roommate Gerard Longo.
Verges, admired for his brilliance, nonetheless baffled and enraged many observers by defending despicable clients.
Leader says rich countries failed to help oil-dependent Ecuador offset losses incurred by foregoing drilling in the region.
Russian politician Yakov Silin has a PR issue on his hands after one of his campaign ads featured actress Emilia Clarke as a local woman.
The partition of British India in August 1947 resulted in one of the greatest forced migrations in human history.
Some Chinese are paying a lot of money to be 'kidnapped.'
One in four U.S. residents feel that the money and effort spent to enforce marijuana laws just isn’t worth it.
The mystery of Venezuelan President Maduro's place of birth could be more than just a myth -- it could cost him the presidency.
Pro-Morsi youth began giving tours of Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya Square two weeks ago, but everything changed Wednesday.