Archaeologists have traced the earliest lock-and-key mechanism back to ancient Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. Made from wood ...

With low-lying areas around the world increasingly susceptible to flooding -- this at a time when population growth has necessitated the construction of more and more homes in such areas -- the ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's ...

It currently houses the embassy of France in Iraq, for which Paris pays rent only to the Iraqi government, despite the ...

On Monday Belize officially signed the Safe Third Country co-operation agreement with the United States of America. The ...

The U.S. Senate failed to pass a stopgap funding bill, extending the partial government shutdown. The main disagreement between parties is over the expiration of health insurance subsidies linked to ...

The food assistance program relies on government funding. Federal officials are warning of the threat that a prolonged government shutdown, now in its 15th day, could pose to millions of Americans who ...

It's been two weeks since the United States government entered its partial shutdown. The United States government partially shut down Oct. 1 due to a budget impasse when Congress failed to agree on ...

The federal government’s partial shutdown continues on for the 15th day on Wednesday, Oct. 15, after the U.S. Senate failed for the eighth time to get enough votes to overcome a budget impasse. Here's ...

Labor groups are set to square off against the Trump administration one day after the president renewed his threat to cut “Democrat programs.” By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington A federal judge on ...

The U.S. Senate’s latest vote to pass a stopgap funding bill to end the partial federal government shutdown failed on Oct. 14. That means the shutdown, which started Oct. 1, will continue. The stopgap ...