Chinese laborer hid mysterious skull for 85 years. Now scientists know who is this ancient 'Dragon Man'A remarkable discovery in China has linked the 'Dragon Man' skull to the elusive Denisovans, an extinct human group previously known mainly...
Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo's work: Neanderthal genome, DenisovansSvante Paabo and colleagues extracted and sequenced the first Neanderthal genome from ancient bones. He also brought to light the existence...
United States says Russia has forcibly taken 'thousands' of UkrainiansThe remarks support allegations by the Ukrainian government which estimates nearly 1.2 million people have been deported into Russia or Rus...
Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plansAfter Russian forces withdrew from occupied areas around Kyiv in early April, they left behind scenes of horror and traumatized communities...
Russia claims Mariupol 'liberated' but West hails Ukraine's resistanceThe fate of the besieged port has become totemic as Russia battles to complete a land bridge covering territories of Ukraine already under ...
Russians leave Chernobyl; Ukraine braces for renewed attacksUkraine's state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received "significant doses" of radiation from...
Ukrainians who can't flee war increasingly face hungerIn the shelled city of Kharkiv, mostly elderly women came to collect food and other urgent supplies. In the capital of Kyiv, ashes of the d...
300 dead in airstrike on theatre in Mariupol, say officialsSoon after the airstrike, Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's human rights commissioner, said more than 1,300 people had been shel...
Officials say art school used as shelter bombed by RussiansThere was no immediate word of casualties from the Saturday attack, although the council said the building was destroyed and there were vic...
Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for helpThe fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war's worst suffering, would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians, who are larg...
Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generationsUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Kremlin in an overnight video address of deliberately creating "a humanitarian catastro...
Putin rallies behind troops while lethal fire rains downThe invasion has touched off a burst of antiwar protests inside Russia, and the rally was surrounded by suspicions it was a Kremlin-manufac...
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in UkraineMoscow police said more than 200,000 people were in and around the Luzhniki stadium for the rally and concert marking the eighth anniversar...
Ukraine says 78 children have been killed since Russia invaded
Russian forces edge closer to Kyiv as city becomes 'fortress'Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain holed up in Ukrainian cities, including besieged Mariupol, under a Russian bombing campaign after...
Air strike wounds 17 staff at Ukraine children's hospitalThe deputy head of Zelenskyy's office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said authorities are trying to establish the number of people who may have been k...