Despite the ability to walk upright, early relatives of humanity represented by the famed "Lucy" fossil likely spent much of their time in trees, remaining very active climbers, researchers say. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
Iran is describing the new European Union sanctions as "inhuman" and says they will not force any retreat on Tehran's nuclear program. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
The finding may lead scientists to rethink some aspects of climate change models, which assume humans weren't responsible for much greenhouse gas before the Industrial Revolution. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
Neanderthals apparently last interbred with the ancestors of today's Europeans after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, researchers say. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren't just occasional carnivores but regular meat eaters, researchers say. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
When two boats filled with people collided on Hong Kong's busy waterways, the impact knocked a hole in one vessel's engine room and the water poured in too fast to stop it from sinking. Passengers struggled to find life vests and dozens dro... [Full Article]
The United Nations announced Friday it is nearly doubling its humanitarian appeal for Syria, seeking $347 million for people in need, including more than half a million children forced to flee their homes. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, may soon be taking his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes - to lead them on a migration route. Putin has communed wi... [Full Article]
Indonesia's justice minister said Tuesday that his country would extradite human trafficking kingpin Sayed Abbas to Australia next year. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
The genome of a recently discovered branch of extinct humans known as the Denisovans that once interbred with us has been sequenced, scientists said today (Aug. 30). (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]