David Matheson said he regrets perpetuating the idea that being gay is a disorder. “It is horrifying to think that I was part of a system that held people like me down,” he said in an exclusive interview for Channel 4 News. Matheson, 57, admitted the practice which nearly 700,000 Americans have unde

Diana shook hands with 10 AIDS patients when she officially opened Broderip Ward, Britain's first purpose-built AIDS ward, at the Middlesex Hospital, London. The patients would not be photographed because of the stigma attached to the disease. 9.4.87

Although Escher did not have mathematical training—his understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive—Escher's work had a strong mathematical component, and more than a few of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triang

One casualty of flooding from Hurricane Irene was the 141-year-old Bartonsville Covered Bridge, an historic landmark in Vermont built by Sanford Granger, caught on camera as it was swept away by floodwaters.

Bill Gates recently got to check out the Omniprocessor, an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, which turns human waste into water and electricity. In places without good waste treatment plants, it could be a real game-changer.

The Parthenon is an ancient Greek temple built on the Acropolis hill of Athens, Greece.It is a temple made of white Pentelic marble and was dedicated to goddess Athena, the patroness of the city of Athens.
The construction began in 447 BC after the orders of the Athenian statesman Pericles.

Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104. Ms. de Havilland, a classic Hollywood beauty, built an illustrious film career punctuated by a successful fight to loosen studios’ grip on actors.

This is a time lapse video of a 15 story hotel that was constructed in less than a week. The builder claims it has been built to resist a 9 level earthquake. In an amazing feat of productivity, a construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha completed the Ark Hotel.

This video unveils the design for The Line, a 500-metre-tall mirror-clad skyscraper that will be built to house nine million people as part of the Neom initiative in Saudi Arabia.

These plastic bottles are now being viewed as a green, cheap and sustainable way to light homes. In rural Manila where homes are often built so close to each other that they have no windows or natural light these bottles are a God send. With electricity unaffordable or unavailable for many families ...