For two weeks every February, Nice, on the Cote d'Azur, bids goodbye to winter with the biggest carnival in France. The annual event traditionally celebrates the king, but this year the theme will be ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --Guinness World Records confirmed a massive reticulated python discovered in the Maros region of Indonesia is officially the longest wild snake to be formally measured. The ...

It’s been a frigid stretch of weather in the Chicago area, and if it feels unusual, your assumptions may be right. The last time the city of Chicago had a high temperature of above 32 degrees was back ...

Summer-like weather has been lingering across Southern California in recent days — but will it stick around? Temperatures in Orange County’s inland areas on Wednesday, Jan. 14, were about 15 degrees ...

Erik Spoelstra is now the longest tenured coach in North American professional sports Carmen Mandato / Getty Images An earlier version of this article misstated the three longest-serving MLB managers.

If he hadn't already done it, Cam Little would have broken the record for the NFL's longest field goal on Sunday. With three seconds remaining in the first half of Sunday's game against the Titans, ...

Sunday, Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. Long before modern science explained the phenomenon, ancient cultures recognized the solstice as a ...

NASA has announced when the longest total solar eclipse of the century will occur—and you won’t have to wait long. Here’s what you should know. According to NASA's solar eclipse calendar, the longest ...

The world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel is being built in Norway, intended to cut travel time between major cities and become part of a ferry-free highway along its western coast. The ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...