Located in the northern end of Sumatra, Bukit Lawang has developed a reputation as a destination for wildlife. This small ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you'd get sucked in by its ...

Kinshasa, Zaire - 1974: (L-R) George Foreman (left) and Muhammad Ali boxing at Zaire Stade du 20 Mai, The Rumble in the Jungle, October 30, 1974. (Photo by Ken Regan/Disney General Entertainment ...

This word has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 77 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year ...

The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avacado supplies, recruits feminist professor Margo Hunt to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only ...

I’m overwriting. I’ve just reread Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” and its prose, lurid and yet somehow plodding, has worked its way into my mind. But what an important novel it was ...

Panama released dozens of migrants deported from the US who were held in a remote jungle camp, amid human rights concerns. The illegal migrants have been told by the Panama authorities that ...

Thunderstorms are lessening across south-east Queensland however multiple emergency alerts are in place after large bursts of rain and severe thunderstorms on Monday morning. Both Queensland and ...

Onoda posed a serious problem to post-war Japan—he was still killing people on the island of Lubang. He and his three comrades, Private Yuichi Akatsu, Corporal Shōichi Shimada, and Private ...