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Scientists got a huge surprise in 2009 when they found a well-preserved human brain inside a 2,600-year-old skull dug up at an archaeological site in Heslington, England. They simply couldn't fathom how a mass of soft tissue could be preserved for thousands of years. But now they know the answer--and it's all about mud. That's right. Researchers at the York Archaeological Trust have determined...

BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - A popular documentary on China's struggles with pollution was inaccessible on the country's video sharing websites on Saturday, sparking concern from Chinese Internet users that it had been censored within a week of its launch. "Under the Dome," a film by journalist Chai Jing that explains air pollution in straightforward terms, spurred a national debate...

Germany on Friday approved a new quota that will force some of Europe's largest companies to increase the number of women in their boardrooms to 30 percent by next year. Women claim just 15.5 percent of boardroom seats on companies listed on the S&P 1500 -- an index of U.S. stocks -- fewer than the combined number of positions held by men named John, Robert, William or James, according...

The streets of Selma, Alabama, were packed on Saturday with thousands of people who traveled to the small town to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic march for voting rights. Large crowds gathered around the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which marks the location where local activists, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were attacked by police on March 7, 1965. Officers used tear gas...

BOSTON -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial is just beginning, and already his lawyers are admitting he's a guilty man. Experts say that just might save his life. By faulting the 21-year-old for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, defense lawyer Judy Clarke may have made it easier to soften her client's image, pin the majority of the blame on Tsarnaev's radicalized, overbearing...

From the beaches of Bali to the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the outback of Australia to the mountains of Tibet, best-selling author and acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer has seen it all. He's spent a lifetime traveling the globe, landing his dream job reporting on world affairs for Time Magazine in 1982. So where does someone who has seen every corner of the world say is the best place to visit? Nowhere, it turns...

After crashing his vehicle during pre-season testing, Formula One driver Fernando Alonso is said to have woken up having no memory of the past 20 years of his life. Quoting a report in the Spanish daily El Pais, The Telegraph writes that Alonso awoke from the crash believing that it was the year 1995. "I'm Fernando, I drive go-karts and I want to be a Formula One driver," the 33-year-old...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine. The General Prosecutor's office in Kiev said in a statement Friday that Anna Duritskaya, the 23-year old model who was walking with Nemtsov at the time of his killing, is being...

In addition to packing extra pairs of underwear and all the sunscreen money can buy, the next time you're going on a trip make sure to pack "Lizard Bites & Street Riots," a new travel book that might just save your life. Written by three experts (each with long careers in either health or security), the book is more travel savior than travel guide. "Lizard Bites" helps readers through...