Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The ... Before entering their homes, they make the symbol of a cross in the air with the smoke of the candle ...

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Leaders on Mercer Island ... grounds and defaced windows and walls with anti-Semitic and racist symbols on Wednesday. "As leaders in this community, we are angry ...

Around 250 people holding British Overseas Territories citizenship live on the archipelago's only inhabited island, also called Tristan da Cunha, in a community known as Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...