The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 mounds on Bohol Island in the Philippines where grassy cover turns brown during the dry season.

In 1942, the Japanese surged through the Dutch East Indies, conquering territory at an incredible pace. By February, Japanese troop convoys advanced towards Java, as they were met by a small Allied ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

Rescue teams continued to search for the bodies of victims buried by mud during a landslide in Indonesia. The earth collapsed ...

On a quiet headland in Donegal or Connemara today you might see a strange sight. A small group gather around a heavy stone that has sat in the same spot for generations. One person chalks their hands, ...

Chandra and Brandon Carr remember taking their children to visit the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit last year. Upon seeing a replica of a slave ship packed with shackled, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump voiced support for Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, an edict that has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we ...

The megalithic site of Gunung Padang in the highlands of western Java was constructed some 2,000 years ago over the course of several generations. Similar stone monuments are found across the ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...

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