Police in Long Beach shot and killed a man after an armed standoff that also left an officer with a gunshot wound, ...

The Icelandic capital doesn’t need an introduction – thousands of visitors land in Reykjavik every year to see Iceland’s mind ...

One of the oldest and most significant Black church studies offerings among U.S. theological schools has received a $5 ...

Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation, recently told a group of consumer advocates that although he and other ...

Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

SEE: Before and after images/video of this Pacific island, destroyed and restored to be a breeding ground for sea turtles and ...

Thousands of mysterious black balls that washed ashore and closed a stretch of popular Australian beaches last month were discovered to be mini blobs of poop. Initially believed to be made of tar ...

Beach holidays are what kicked off tourism in Lanzarote in the 1960s and the island is blessed with a string of fine beaches. There are those black sand beaches that you find dotted throughout ...

Hundreds of mysterious “tar balls” about the size of golf balls washed up on Sydney’s beaches in mid-October, prompting their closure for days for cleanup operations. The black spheres were ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of sticky black balls that began washing on beaches in Sydney, Australia last month. Thousands of the strange balls first began appearing in mid-October ...

When thousands of foul-smelling "black balls" washed up on Australian beaches, many were perplexed ... The inorganic material within the ball comes from sand, calcium salt and bacteria primarily ...