"In a bad year, it is not only the plows that break, but the hearts too." -- Pira Sudham, "People of Isan" The recorded history of Laos begins with the reign of the 14th-century Fa Ngum, a former ...

PAHOA, Hawaii — The earth cracked open beneath Leilani Estates in middle-of-the-night darkness, glowing crimson against a black sky. Salvador Luquin awoke on his 50-acre ranch to acrid smoke ...

A shock wave barreled toward Earth last night that cracked its magnetosphere, the region that shields our planet from harmful radiation. The origin of the shockwave is unknown, but astronomers ...

it takes place in the Andean plateau — the Altiplano — an arid, mountainous strip with altitudes nearing 14,000 feet above sea level that runs through western Bolivia. There, on hard, cracked ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about a "half-cracked" scenario for a predicted megaquake along the Nankai Trough off western to central Japan. Question ...

At a field outside Kozani, northern Greece, the strikingly blue-and-purple petals of saffron give off an intoxicating scent that underscores the value of one of the country's most lucrative crops.