The belief that “African men are polygamous in nature’’ is an excuse that has often been used to justify the infidelity of menfolk in marriage in African societies. That Islam permits polygamy has ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

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The sign at the entrance reads, “We ain’t dialin’ 911,” illustrated with a gun. It feels less like a warning than a thesis statement. On a cloudy, wind-pressed Monday known elsewhere as Groundhog Day, ...

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Louisville — Postal officials unveiled a commemorative stamp of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, featuring a photo of the champ in his fighting prime.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Postal officials unveiled a commemorative stamp of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, featuring a photo of the champ in his ...

Nearly 10 years after his death, Muhammad Ali is the first Louisville native to be featured on a postal stamp. The United States Postal Service has honored the legendary boxer and humanitarian with a ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same cave. The enticing possibility even exists that both species overlapped, ...