Of the 20,000 people taken to this prison, seven survived.

They took justice into their own hands — to varying degrees of "success."

"If I had seen it while by myself, I wouldn't have said anything, but there were four of us who saw it."

After McMillian was exonerated, a reporter asked him if his release restored his faith in the criminal justice system. "No," he said. "Not at all."

A study examining the strange behavior of a male Brazilian reef octopus suggests that octopuses may be capable of complex narrative dreams — and even nigh...

Many have likened the study to the plot of the "Planet of the Apes."

A timeline and history of the Berlin Wall, one of the most memorable emblems of the Cold War that divided much of the world in half.

The Santo Cristo de Burgos disappeared in 1693 and may have just been found.

"It seems they formed a neighborhood here in Bathonea. Until now, we had no clue."

Within a century of Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas, the Indigenous population is estimated to have fallen over 90 percent from 60 million pe...