History under fire: NY and Pa. historic sites face closing, cutbacks as state budgets tighten State budget cuts in tough economic times are ...
Bill that would ban smoking at Calif. state parks stalls; lawmakers vow to try again An attempt by the California Legislature to impose ...
A wall comparing skulls of early humans is seen inside the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Copyright 2010 AP News
Smithsonian's Natural History museum opens $21 million permanent exhibit on human evolution The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is opening a new permanent exhibit exploring human evolution over 6 million years. The nearly $21 million Hall of Human Origins opens Wednesday. ...
A zoo in northeastern China has been shut after a spate of Siberian tiger deaths as reports Wednesday said dozens of the dead animals may have been used to make a virility tonic. China's forestry ministry has ordered the zoo in the ...
Sidney Crosby's gold-medal puck going to Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto after a Swiss detour The gold-medal puck is going to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, after a brief detour to Switzerland. Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal for ...
A Brazilian artist launched a subversive protest against the popular "CowParade" travelling art exhibit, which he deemed an affront to his country's homegrown art scene. The popular CowParade urban art display brings dozens of brightly-coloured life-sized resin cows to cities around the ...
Nude performance art causes some discomfort at NYC retrospective of performance artist's work Laurence Lallier slipped carefully between two naked women facing each other in a narrow doorway at the Museum of Modern Art. "I didn't want to step on their feet," ...
Harvest of native plantsto yield seeds to sow in a new play area near Laughlin The National Park Service is planning to bomb a new park near Laughlin. Seed bomb, that is. The agency is building a park complex on land south ...
Rush is on to save 3 sick Siberian tigers at Chinese zoo where 11 starved to death Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeastern China where 11 of the big cats starved to ...
In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 photo, a plaque marks the empty frame from which thieves cut Rembrandt's "The storm on the Sea of Galilee," which remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was one of ...
In a first, the Prado is to display John Singer Sargent?s "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" from Tuesday beside the painting which inspired it -- Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas". Singer's painting, one of the top draws at Boston's Museum of Fine ...
