The marble bust of the Roman emperor?possibly the oldest ever found?was discovered by divers in a French river.

The Sichuan quake's epicenter was practically pinpointed in a decade-long fault study, which warned last July that the region was ripe for a shock.

A decade after its discovery, scientists are struggling to pin down the properties of the "dark side" of gravity and unravel a mystery that accounts for about 74 percent of the universe.

Real-life rocket man Yves Rossy soared through the Alps this week on his first demonstration flight with a self-made flying contraption.

A magnitude 5.5 tremor set off landslides Friday near the epicenter of this week's massive quake, while the search for survivors took on an added urgency.