In the chaos of World War I, No Man’s Land became more than just the contested terrain between front lines.

On January 31, 2001, two Japan Airlines flights carrying a total of 677 people came within 135 meters of colliding in mid-air over Suruga Bay.

Centuries later, a set of parchments surfaced in the United States that tell a different story—one involving maps, unfamiliar names, and a possible glimpse of North America long before Columbus.

High in the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau, a powerful state emerged that would challenge the great empires of Asia.

For hundreds of years, a small territory on the border of Spain and Portugal functioned as an independent microstate without belonging to either country.

A man leaps from a ten-story building intending to end his life. On the way down, he’s struck mid-air by a shotgun blast through a ninth-floor window.

Long before waterproof cameras and scuba gear became standard tools for marine research, a French biologist named Louis Boutan descended into the ocean with a bulky, custom-built camera and captured what no one had seen before: a photograph taken beneath the sea.

In August 1996, a three-year-old boy fell 24 feet into the gorilla enclosure at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago.

In 1983, Australians watched in disbelief as a 61-year-old potato farmer in work boots outran a field of elite athletes in the 875-kilometre Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon.

This rare oceanic material, expelled by sperm whales and often called “floating gold,” has mystified and enriched humans for centuries.