A woman who ate her placenta after giving birth wound up spreading a potentially deadly infection to her baby, according to a new report of the case.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Wednesday to make China's new "special envoys" feel welcome in Berlin, as she unveiled

Jeanne Calment, the French woman wh

Landlord Fails to Show Which Parking Space It Sought to Recover; Holdover Dismissed

Maligned as a bee-killer and possibly cancer-causing, a common herbicide has turned out to be a boon for tadpoles making them more toxic to predators, researchers said Wednesday.

HAVANA (AP) — A joint U.S.-Cuban expedition to explore the island's coral reefs uncovered a surprisingly healthy ecosystem and large schools of mackerel with significant commercial value, scientists involved in the mission said Tuesday.

She died in her twenties some 1,700 years ago, and is believed to have ruled over a desert valley in ancient Per

Archaeologists at Mexico's Teotihuacan ruins site say they have found evidence that the city's builders may have dug a tunnel beneath the Pyramid of the Moon

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States has denied visas to five teenage students from Gambia competing in a prestigious international robotics contest in Washington, the team's leader said Tuesday.

If you're an introvert -- preferring to work alone or with relatively few people, there are certain jobs that can suit you far more than other ones.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government ditched two controversial manifesto promises on Tuesday on fox hunting and free

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In the 241 years since the US declared independence from the English