A sports historian behind the claims that Scotland invented football says he has found the world’s oldest known pitch there.

As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable ...

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

A few players in NFL history can claim they were drafted even older than that. The Sporting News takes a look at the oldest players selected in the NFL Draft, from Chris Weinke to Brandon Weeden.

ICE this month published a request for bids to operate detention centers for up to $45 billion as it seeks to expand to ...

His death not only leaves a profound legacy but also places him among the oldest popes in the long and storied history of the Catholic Church. The papacy, one of the world’s oldest continuous ...