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Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth, according to a new study that helps narrow the location where humans first evolved, probably near the South Africa-Namibia border. The largest study of African genetics ever undertaken also found that nearly three-fourths of African-Americans can trace their ancestry to …

Two 10-year-old boys in the U.K. have been arrested over a claim of rape, according to Sky News. The alleged victim is an 8-year-old girl who was out playing with the boys on Tuesday. She went with them to a park where she says she was sexually assaulted, Sky News …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step Monday with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a Holocaust denier. The Vatican said the three-hour talks with a …