In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Mani Ratnam39s Ravan lent the 39demon king39 shades of white and grayThe ancient Jain scriptures say he will be one of the next 24 Jain tirthankaras or revered souls Legend has it that Ravan and his w ...

Like many Westerners (albeit an apparently dwindling number in America, where recent polls show more than 70 percent of the country believes in God, heaven ... in ancient Buddhist texts was ...

Even as Avurudhu blossoms lay strewn and wilted on the ground, a million lotuses bloomed to let their sweet fragrance waft the air as the sacred Sri Dalada exposition began on Friday in Kandy‘s ...

MAYORING CEREMONY in Winchelsea has taken place every year since 1295 on Easter Monday. This is due to King Edward I in 1292 granting the town the right to have a Mayor and Corporation. This year on ...

Brazilian fossil hunters unearthed Earth's oldest known ant, a 113 million-year-old predator with scythe-like jaws that ...

Some bands have a bit of history to recount. Heaven & Hell – or Black Sabbath, as they were originally known – are metal history. And now they’re back to teach the new generation of bands ...

In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.

Scientists have identified the oldest known ant, belonging to the extinct subfamily Haidomyrmecinae, also known as "hell ants ...

With its stars “at the top of their game, in a marriage made in both heaven and hell, the story of Othello and Iago could not possibly end otherwise than it does. “And, O the pity of it!” ...