SOUTH CHESTERFIELD – Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) crews have repaired and reopened over 200 roads and bridges that were affected by...

Watford fans should be able to enjoy Christmas a little more after the Hornets gave their survival prospects a sizeable boost with a memorable 2-0 victory over Manchester United to finally pick up their first Premier League win of the season at Vicarage Road.

Watford are out of the relegation zone tonight after storming to a stunning 3-0 victory over champions elect Liverpool in a result that will reverberate around the football world.

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Royal Dutch Shell cut its dividend for the first time since the Second World War.

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An international research team jointly led by NTU Singapore, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany's Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) has for the first time observed the ultrafast formation and then breakdown of the water ion that is created when water is exposed to ionising radiation....

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The survey was the first ever OBN seismic survey to be conducted in Egypt and the most detailed survey of the block since 1988.

Paddles the polydactyl cat took Twitter by storm after being elected into office with her mom, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

It's coming. And it's just as bad as you imagined.

Antwon Lee tells his little man "it's OK to cry" and to "stay strong" during the ordeal.

The Gender Guardian offers 12 years of education, from elementary school to college.

In the second Healthy Lunchtime Challenge kids enter their best original lunch recipes for a chance to attend the Kids’ State Dinner.

Vegan actress and celebrated animal activist says she's expecting later this year.

Buckingham Palace finally puts the pregnancy rumors to rest by officially announcing that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting.

Eco-architect-turned-full-time vintage aluminum trailer renovator Matthew Hofmann reveals an Airstream hotel in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara.

In the next decade, the tropics will suffer unprecedented climate change effects, long before the Arctic and its polar bears see big shifts.

The 2-month-old cub at the Toronto Zoo hasn't quite nailed walking, but he's definitely got being cute figured out.

These tiny, lightweight gadgets could mean huge savings for farmers.

Obama is an agent of change. Or at least he's supposed to be. Peter Dykstra grades six areas of the Obama presidency.

Ford has announced the 19 markets that will receive the first wave of the Focus Electric in late 2011.

Automakers who wanted 2010 bragging rights had to field their cars this week or risk getting the news swallowed up by the Christmas rush. So a whole lot of peop

44 different types of organic herbs and vegetables are growing in the middle of Chicago's busy international airport.

With groundwater pumping and the evaporation of heavy weights of water, Earth's crust rebounds. This movement affects the fault, causing earthquakes.

I liked this small battery SUV fine, though it exhibited a mysterious slowdown. If charge times are speeded up and the price kept within reason, it should sell.

Will bookable-by-the-hour private garden spaces encourage more cooped up urbanites to step outside?

Christina Broom is widely heralded as the most important women in early press photography.

The British Airways i360 isn't even due to open until August.

Despite living in saltwater, manatees like to drink fresh water.

With Sonoma County in the bag, affordable prefab builder Blu Homes unveils its first project in Southern California: a remote, low-impact desert retreat owned b

Blu Homes celebrates the East Coast debut of the iconic Breezehouse with an open house weekend in New York's Hudson Valley region.

Looking back at the first Thanksgiving offers a way forward for us, says Michael Berman.

Researchers trace back the origin of all flowering plants to a single ancestor using a sophisticated data crunch.

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

HIV might never have become a global pandemic if it wasn't for the ecology of what is now known as Kinshasa, and what was then a 1920s colonial hub.

Elasmotherium sibiricum, the so-called 'Siberian unicorn,' is not as closely related to modern rhinos as once thought.

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.

If dinosaurs had telescopes and had pointed them at Saturn, they might have seen a ringless world.

The president is getting a report card for his first 100 days in office from Michael Pollan and others. How's he doing on the food front?

With these first-aid tips and proper planning, you and your dog should be ready for anything.

It may be a largely symbolic victory for environmentalists, but many critics of hydraulic fracturing hope it will set an example for other states to follow.

Prize-winning design proposal revives defunct post offices by transforming them into food-sharing centers.