ONE OF THE early uses of the word was by Lead Belly, who sang about the Scottsboro boys, nine young African-Americans in Scottsboro, Alabama, who were wrongly accused in 1931 of raping two white ...

Various projections have suggested that carbon emissions from China, the world's largest emitter, will probably peak soon — if they haven’t already — well ahead of Beijing’s pledge that ...

The sun has been in a very active phase in recent years. A busy series of northern lights activity will soon come to a peak as the sun reaches its solar maximum stage in the coming months.

Daveynin via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 A 6,643-foot peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been renamed “Kuwohi,” which means “mulberry place” in the Cherokee language. The Cherokee ...

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The US Board of ...

To determine peak voltage from an oscilloscope trace, the maximum vertical deviation of the trace from the centre line is measured from the screen. This number of divisions is multiplied by the Y ...

Brook Cecilia Cheuvront, 20, went hiking on Saturday at Devils Peak at Table Mountain National Park near Cape Town before her body was found on Sunday. Western Cape police spokesperson ...

Watch Pagan Peak for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now! After a body is found in a staged crime scene near the German-Austrian border, two ...

Depending on the numbers you choose to consume, it’s safe to say the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is somewhere between toss-up and lean-Harris.

Wednesday’s statement described the expedition to scale the “Tsangyang Gyatso Peak” as one of the toughest ever undertaken by the NIMAS team (X/PemaKhanduBJP) The peak, at a height of 6,383 ...

More than 140 people were killed in an IS attack on a concert hall in Moscow in March It is exactly 10 years since the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group proclaimed its caliphate, announced to ...