Chennai: Gibbons, cobras, pythons and other exotic wildlife -- many of them sedated and some venomous -- were among the 49 ...

More than 1,200 people have been confirmed dead, many swept away by giant waves, after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at dusk on Sept. 28. Authorities fear the ...

Join me on a unique experience flying with Hajj pilgrims returning home on Stage 2 of the Hajj Flight. The journey began on ...

In earlier research in Sulawesi, we found images of human figures with bird heads and other animal features, dated to at least 48,000 years ago. Together, these discoveries suggest that early peoples ...

Fri, January 23, 2026 Published on Jan. 23, 2026 Published on 2026-01-23T14:09:12+07:00 escuers on Friday has found the bodies of 10 passengers on a fishery surveillance plane that went missing in ...

The faint outline of a human hand discovered in a cave in eastern Indonesia is the world’s oldest known example of rock art, according to a new study. The hand stencil, found in a limestone cave known ...

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Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years ago The faded outline of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest known rock art, in a cave off the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The hand stencil has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, ...

Indonesian authorities have found the wreckage of a surveillance aircraft that went missing in South Sulawesi and have recovered the body of one of the 10 people on board. The others are still missing ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...