LONDON — After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil. In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation where any slip-up could ...
A little while after we got to Alaska, we were on our way to the apartment. The drive was next to a lake, with a cluster of mountains on the other side — they all still looked like they had milk on top of them. We came to the small valley town of Girdwood. It wasn’t very exciting. There ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem. Northrop Grumman's rocket-launching plane took off from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific on Thursday, following weather delays all week. While ...
A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order. Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vick Jones, who owns the remote property ...
Researchers began a highly anticipated study of two possible Ebola treatments on Thursday in hopes of fighting the still-growing outbreak in eastern Congo, as the World Health Organization announced the enrollment of the first participant. The virus causing this outbreak, called Bundibugyo, ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Three years of war have devastated much of Sudan. The impact has been pressed into the skin of survivors, and their memories. Thousands of people are dead. Millions are displaced. Associated Press journalists spent more than a week in and around the capital after the army ...
