If an ice age is coming and you are a lichen in Antarctica, you better hope you live near a volcano.

A new study suggests organisms native to the South Pole survived ice ages by huddling in pockets of warmth created by the heat of underground ...

GENEVA -- The humanitarian situation is dire for millions of Syrian civilians -- especially children -- and is likely to deteriorate further unless the warring sides in the three-year conflict allow aid organizations unhindered access to besieged ...

ATLANTA -- Hundreds of Georgia cities and towns would be able to cut early voting from three weeks to one week under a bill that cleared the state Senate Ethics Committee on Tuesday.

House Bill 891 will allow more than 500 municipal governments ...

Obesity is probably a factor in some of the almost 22,000 new diagnoses of ovarian cancer that will be handed out this year to American women, a new study says. The finding adds ovarian cancer, the deadliest of the gynecological malignancies, to a...

MIAMI--Cuba's government refused to identify the people or entities involved in a weapons shipment to North Korea last year that violated a U.N. arms embargo, and might have violated the embargo twice more in 2012, according to a U.N. report made ...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein jolted her colleagues Tuesday -- and sent them scrambling to figure out what to do next -- with her charge that the CIA may have violated the Constitution by monitoring her committee's computers.

The chairwoman...