On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., ...

In 2011, the 30-year-old space shuttle program ends as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the 135th shuttle ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 21. Check what happened ...

Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Pétain, De Gaulle, Eisenhower… Many great military leaders, thanks to the popularity and prestige ...

2019: Crowds dancing at a festival in Sheffield trigger minor earthquakes. On the same day, the UK oil tanker Stena Impero is ...

China has broken ground on what it says will be the world's largest hydropower project, a $170  billion feat capable of ...

China has launched construction on what it calls the “Project of the Century” — the world’s biggest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. Costing 1.2 trillion yuan, this megadam will ...

China has begun construction on a massive dam project in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, the longest and deepest canyon in the world. Experts fear the impact on wildlife in the river gorge, ...

Hundreds of people who have been displaced by fighting in Sudan gathered Monday at the central train station in Cairo to ...

With the capital's reservoirs approaching historic lows, officials are turning to ancient engineering to conserve potable ...

Envirocon wrapped up the project to remove the 120-year-old dam on the Blackfoot River on Friday, a full week earlier than what it had anticipated when it started work on Oct. 17.