Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyz…

What if a single sentence could carry two completely different meanings, one when read forward and another when read backward? In a new study, researchers at A…

Gilgo Beach killer sentenced to life without parole Relatives of women murdered by New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann confronted him in court …

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbr…

Could this ancient burial site be the oldest lethal plague outbreak? Graves of hunter-gatherers in Siberia point to a deadly disease outbreak dating to some 5…

UN Secretary General António Guterres visited Haiti on Tuesday as gang violence deepens a humanitarian crisis, with more than one in 10 Haitians displaced. The…

One victim reported to police one of the suspects burned the tattoo on his arm with a blowtorch.

France's oldest female detainee has gone on trial for murder at a court in Versailles, in a cold case centring on a dismembered body found 31 years ago. Marie…

Canadian animator Cordell Barker, creator of the Oscar-nominated short films, “The Cat Came Back” and “Strange Invaders,” is now in production on “The Anta Cla…

Nigeria's military says it has rescued the widow of a retired general who himself had died at the weekend while being held by kidnappers. Maj Gen Rabe Abubaka…