Remains of French climbers found
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A search team finds the remains of two of the four French climbers who went missing in Nepal last October.
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Mountaineers retrieve three bodies believed to have been buried for 22 years on an Indian glacier.
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PAU, France -- The bodies of two female hospital workers, one decapitated and the other with her throat slit, were found Saturday at a psychiatric hospital in southwest France, a local prosecutor said.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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The remains of French soldiers killed as Napoleon's army retreated from Russia in 1812 are buried in Belarus.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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Avalanches in the French Alps leave  three skiers dead and a fourth badly hurt, say emergency services.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.
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A German climber died of cold and his British colleague was hospitalised with hypothermia after a night in a storm on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, Italian rescue workers said.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris's best-known equestrian statues.
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The skeletal remains of at least 51 people &#151; many of them children &#151; have been unearthed, and authorities suspect some were killed by the Nazis because they were disabled and considered worthless by the regime.
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At least four skiers died in avalanches in the French Alps as hopes faded for a Canadian couple missing since Sunday while snowboarding in Switzerland, emergency services said.
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Two climbers still missing on Mount Hood may have been swept to their deaths over a treacherous cliff by howling winds of more than 100 mph after they left their injured companion behind in a snow cave to get help.
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A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Austria, police said.
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.