An effort to save the Tryon house where Nina Simone was born reveals the artist’s complicated relationship with her hometown.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

The statues, 53 meters and 35 meters in height, with thousands of caves of monk statues around them, are over 1,500 years old, reminders of the Buddhist civilization in the region. In 2003, the ...