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More than 250,000 items from National Geographic stores will be sold at bargain-basement prices this weekend at the D.C. Armory for the venerable society’s annual Warehouse Sale. Read more...

National Geographic Explorer Elizabeth Lindsey is redirecting her energy this Christmas in an effort to consume less, reduce stress and adhere to her values. In the past her routine included a flurry of shopping for the perfect gifts, but now she wants to engage the season in a more meaningful way.

SAN RAFAEL – A team of artists with a technical bent is preparing to launch an interactive virtual world that its founder said will expand significantly beyond the wildly popular Second Life.

ologists has discovered a long-lost shipwreck in the depths of Yukon's legendary Lake Laberge that is being hailed as a "national treasure" and a "time capsule" from the Klondike.

A group of China's famed terracotta warriors are going on display at the National Geographic Society in Washington, on the last stop of a four-city US tour.

State and national physician groups are leery of the plan by UnitedHealthcare to acquire the membership renewal rights of Health Net in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York — and they are ready for a fight today.

You might have thought that it is only the red-top tabloid press which regards any European with an unfamiliar surname as inherently ridiculous. If so, you would be wrong. Even the more serious BBC political programmes, such as Newsnight, have been cracking juvenile jokes over the identity of the new President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy. Rumpy-pumpy! Rumplestiltskin! Cue smirks ...

The Rehoboth Beach Historical Society will host its annual fall luncheon at the Captain’s Table restaurant beginning at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 21. The luncheon will include society business, the presentation of an award to Allen Walker for the preservation of his residence at 85 Sussex St. and speaker Mike Dixon, a historian who specializes in research on the railroad on Delmarva.

Five ancient crocodile ancestors, two previously unknown, have been uncovered in the Sahara by a National Geographic researcher and his team. The most imposing, BoarCroc, was 20 feet long with triple fangs and likely could have taken down a dinosaur.