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HISTORIANS have discovered an early-19th century recipe for home-made beer - including large doses of treacle.

The creature is the earliest ancestor of modern crocodiles found in Africa - but its huge jaws weren't used to fight dinosaurs... they were a trap for passing fish.

The latest upgrade to Facebook has technology experts warning people to clean up their online history or risk having embarrassing photos and status updates re-surface.

Researchers with Symantec have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors.

A group of Indiana college students who excavated graves at a former county "poor farm" unearthed several Victorian-era caskets, some of them six-sided and one with a glass window that allowed a glimpse of the deceased.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish building workers have dug up 23 skeletons in a suspected mass grave in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey at a site once used by a shadowy state military unit, security officials said on Wednesday. Prosecutors have launched an investigation to identify the bodies and to determine when they were buried. Workers began to find human remains during building work ...

President Barack Obama made a pitch for continued federal support of energy research during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

The old people of the village still remember hearing the screams and gunshots through the olive trees of the cemetery one evening in 1937, at the height of Spain's civil war.

CEBU CITY -- About 18 vintage bombs were unearthed in the South Road Properties’ shore at dawn Monday after a construction worker accidentally excavated these with a backhoe.The Central Command’s Explosive Ordnance Division (EOD) recommended temporarily stopping the construction of the White Sands Beach Resort, where the bombs were found.The rusty devices were believed to be remnants dating back ...

Allan Billard knew it was there — an underground chamber of the Shubenacadie Canal beneath Dartmouth’s Ochterloney Street that was closed off and covered with a bridge.“I knew about it as a kid,” said Billard, the executive director of the Shubenacadie Canal commission. “I used to play in it.”Unfortunately, Halifax Regional Municipality didn’t know it was there when it started construction on a ...

Archaeologists will unearth the foundation of a little-known Provo Tabernacle building that was torn down nearly a century ago.