A heavy sandstorm blanketed Baghdad on Thursday, causing havoc for residents of the Iraqi capital with flights delayed and dozens of residents with respiratory problems taken to hospitals. Many people on the streets of Baghdad wore scarves or masks o...
The small town of Cuatro Cienegas in northern Mexico is an oasis (绿洲) in the Chihuahuan desert. It s a valley that holds an example of what some believe is the one of the first human footprints in the Americas（美洲大陆以及附近岛屿）...
It's not an easy life for an elephant on Bangkok's busy streets. According to the Associated Press, an elephant in the city must earn about 1,000 US dollars a month to feed itself and make a living for its handler. Using an elephant on the streets to...
For more than one thousand years, Babylon was one of the worlds most celebrated cities, where King Nebuchadnezzar II is believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The ruins of the ancient Mes...
From the air, Namibia looks almost uninhabited. Boom towns near depleted diamond mines lie abandoned. Shipwrecks dock the beaches of the skeleton coast. Salt pans, the largest in Africa, reflect sterile white light. 1,200 feet high sand dunes crest o...
An architectural marvel, the center of the Golden Global Pagoda in Bijapur India contains the worlds largest stone dome, built without any supporting pillars. The planned height of the structure is more than 315 feet. And with an inner diameter of ne...
During the holiest Islamic month of Ramadan, only two meals are served-- Suhur and Iftar. Suhur is the meal eaten before dawn and Iftar is eaten after sunset. These consist of mostly fatty and protein-rich foods as seen in this Tehran marketplace, an...
Scientists on Thursday released results of a landmark study to record the diversity of life in and around Australias reefs. The scientists from the Census of Marine Life have reported finding hundreds of new species of marine life off two islands on...
According to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for the year at nearly 1.7 million square miles. A chilling fact, considering that this is only about 10 % more than the l...
While some visitors to Singapore expect a high-tech city, there are also some parts of the island that still reflect how it used to look before urban development took over. In one of the main Central Nature Reserves, monkeys still roam freely, living...
An underwater museum is open for visitors off the coast of Israel in the ancient town of Caesarea. The Port of Caesarea was commissioned by Herod the Great, King of Judaea, and the harbor quickly became the main political and economic artery of the R...
Construction workers in London are currently busy with redevelopment activity across the city. But it often disturbs the graves of thousands of long-deceased Londoners buried deep beneath the modern city. The Wellcome Collection has brought together...
Thousands of people descended on the Spanish town of Bunol on Wednesday to take part in the Tomatina festival. The annual food fight draws visitors from around the world. They pelt each other with ripe fruit until they become soaked through with toma...
The European Space Agencys deep space probe Rosetta transmitted high-resolution images of an asteroid millions of miles from Earth. Rosetta caught up with the Steins Asteroid Friday night in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. U...
The remote village of Kodinji in southern India, population about 13,500, is home to more than 100 pairs of twins, and 90% of those were born within the last 18 years. No one quite knows why, and no published study explains the phenomenon. At the las...
