A European spaceship is en route to become the first unmanned craft to dock with the International Space Station.

See the earliest known photo of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Uncle Sam in a sad state, a groundbreaking space image, and more.

A big quake rocks Britain, the New York Philharmonic entertains North Korea, a galaxy is ablaze with new stars, and more.

Former wildlife poachers are now guiding tourists through eastern India's Sunderbans National Park, home to some 270 Bengal tigers.

At 541 feet tall, the Singapore Flyer is the world's largest observation wheel. The island city's sudden thunderstorm wind gusts were a challenge for designers.

A new monkey debuted in a London "rain forest," a beagle bounded to glory in New York, Japanese children huddled in igloos, and more.

Retreating glaciers caused by global warming in the Swiss Alps are a reality. Now there's concern the warming could harm the small country's famed ski industry.

Nearly naked men test their strength in snow and cold water as part of an annual Japanese festival believed to date back a thousand years.

NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis Thursday afternoon for a mission to attach the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.

Sequins and feathers in Brazil, sheepskin-clad men in Hungary—celebrations around the world mark the days before many Christians begin pre-Easter fasting.

Animal sacrifice, food fights, surgically altered showgirls—see the surprising ways Mardi Gras is being marked around the world.

A long tradition of rat eating—here in Vietnam—is especially relevant at this lunar New Year ringing in the Chinese calendar's Year of the Rat.

A U.S. academic sent Incan artifacts from Peru's "lost" city of Machu Picchu to Yale University in 1911. Was that a loan or a gift?

Mastodon teeth clacked anew in Greece, a Kenyan boy was among many wounded by arrows, China unveiled a bubbly Olympic swim center, and more.

An ex-art smuggler and the former head of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiquities Squad have joined forces to expose illegal trade in ancient treasures.