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http://www.ted.com Why do people see the Virgin Mary on cheese sandwiches or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video, images and music, pro...

Claims in a new book fan the flames of an old debate - but not everyone is happy about it.

China denies a report that Pakistan gave it access to the wreckage of a US "stealth" helicopter used in the covert raid to kill Osama Bin Laden in May.

In a country obsessed with fairness, a new campaign portrays Hindu deities with dark skin.

Baia was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – the place where the rich and powerful came to carry out their illicit affairs.

The Travelers' Century Club is home to the world's most-travelled people - so what keeps them going?

How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?This video...

We examine an ambitious timeline that details the power of various civilizations going all the way back to 2,000 B.C.

A Pakistani inquiry into the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden urges treason charges against a doctor accused of working for the CIA.

The code name for the military operation to apprehend Osama Bin Laden was "Geronimo" Why was it named after one of the best-known Native Americans?

The British Dietetic Association says: "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

An asteroid that visited our Solar System from interstellar space is one of the most elongated celestial bodies known to science.

How 67 words by a British minister are still being fought over in the Middle East 100 years on.

The Reformation shattered the authority of the Catholic Church, but there are signs that divisions have finally been set aside.

A man revered as a Sufi saint and poet was all but forgotten, until his grave was found by chance.

Scanning technology suggests there is a large, previously unknown cavity in the ancient monument.

A senior reporter at the Cambridge News got a call 25 minutes before the assassination, documents reveal.

We name buildings after people, or put up statues to them, because we respect them. But what if we discover they did wrong?

More than 100 Maasai huts are reportedly burned by game reserve authorities amid an ongoing dispute.

Passenger's letter home, written a day before the ship hit an iceberg, fetches £126,000 at auction.

Villagers ate the nearly 8m (26ft) long reptile in Sumatra after a local man wrestled and killed it.

North Atlantic islands start their own online translation service in a bid to get recognition from Google.