Dutch railway company NS may begin paying reparations for its role in transporting Jews during World War II.

Today, cable television broadcasts world news 'round the clock. But not too long ago, most world news was shaped by reporting from Christian missionaries around the globe.

A pair of veteran Health Department employees want to rid the nation's capital of too-present vermin: particulary, the common rat.

Imitating a plan from a 1950s, one recycling company is working to trash disposable containers. A new subscription service delivers household goods in reusable containers. Then it’s collect, wash, refill, repeat—not too unlike the milkman service of the past.

Is there a solution to daily shots for diabetics? An ingestible pill that delivers its dose inside the stomach may soon mean fewer pricks for sick people.

One fish species that is known to feed on dead skin is providing an unusual luxury spa treatment for cracked and callused feet.

Havasu Falls is on many people’s must-see lists. But reaching the site has previously meant employing a professional guide to cross a remote Native American reservation.

Diving for lobsters is a way of life for some poor Hondurans. But decompression sickness can kill or disable those who dive deep for a living.