For the first time in the country’s history, a detailed analysis of Armenia’s “dragon stones” has been conducted with the hope of solving the mystery of these large Neolithic monuments.

An English thrift shop that found itself buried under mountains of old donated clothes has gotten a helping hand from a talented designer.

Recent fashion and design graduate Victoria Ford approached the shop and offered to transform some of its unwanted rags into bespoke pieces for sale at premium prices.

40 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the space station Mir, and with it, a new phase in space exploration. Mir, which means both peace and world in Russian, would provide the home base for a permanently manned international complex orbiting the Earth– and was occupied for 10 years of its 15 in orbit. READ more… (1986)

22 massive granite blocks that once formed the Great Lighthouse of the Alexandria have been hauled up from the bottom of city’s ancient harbor.

The blocks weighed dozens of tons each and consisted of upright pillars, frames, and crossbeams called lintels that once formed the entrance to the structure.

A Good Samaritan said he thanked the Good Lord that he was close at hand when a mother, driving with her kids, suffered a seizure and hurtled off the road into a canal.

What started as a calm Sunday drive turned into anything but when a glance into his review mirror left Casey Curtis shocked: a car that had been following him quickly accelerated, veered to the right, and flew off the road into the bushes.

China’s multi-decade long, successful effort to plant a ring of trees around one of the world’s most hostile deserts has sprouted an unexpected benefit to humanity.

On February 9th, SeaWorld in Orlando received a call that there was an exhausted manatee stuck in a storm drain that needed immediate help.

Arriving on scene, rescuers quickly confirmed that the juvenile male had entered a storm drain and didn’t know how to escape.

20 years ago today, American speed skater Shani Davis became the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in Winter Olympic history for an individual event, winning the men’s 1,000-meter in Italy. He also won a silver medal in the 1500-meter race. Four years later at the Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, he repeated the feat, and became the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in the 1000 meters, and repeating as the 1500-meter silver medalist, too. WATCH him win the gold… (2006)

A police officer and self-described “dog guy,” hooked his own instincts up to those of a local dog to find a missing 3-year-old in Kentucky.

There was a drone and helicopter in the air and a half-dozen officers from the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department scouring the immediate location of a missing persons call on January 7th.

Decades of underinvestment in mining and refining across Europe and North America has landed the manufacturing sector in a problem, which a group of scientists believe can be helped by mushrooms rather than excavators.

From Arkansas comes the story of a huge animal rescue operation of 51 dogs trapped in a derelict shelter.

Headquartered in nearby Nashville, Tennessee, the Animal Rescue Corps (ARC) received information about a nonprofit dog rescue in Ashdown, Arkansas, where an acrimonious divorce between the shelter’s owners left the dogs caught in the crossfire.

In the city of The Hague, a Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

Called LocalDutch, their idea is that the greenhouse grocers will integrate on-site food production with direct-to-consumer retail and local delivery in a single location, hoping the result will reduce transportation costs and food waste.