It's missing a head and some limbs, but an "enchanted" ceramic idol recently unearthed near Barcelona is thought to be the most ancient human figurine ever found in Spain, archaeologists say.

Lima - Using maracas, coca leaves and a hallucinogenic brew, shamans in Peru got down to business Monday using pre-Columbian traditional ceremonies to pick a winner in the US presidential race.

A British grandmother who became the first white woman in the world to be made a Ghanian chief has amazingly been crowned head - of her third tribe. Aid worker Lynne Symonds, 50, was crowned 'Chief of Enlightenment and Education' for the Manprusis tribe in Ghana in 1996 as a thank you for her brave charitable efforts.

Hurricane Sandy took aim at northeastern Turtle Island on Monday morning, promising a deadly mix of snow, wind, rain and high tides spurred on by a full moon.

Her face is tucked under a solid wave inside a whalebone. She is Sedna, the sea goddess who lives in the cold waters of the Arctic, where she is feared and revered by hunters and those traveling on the sea ice. It is said that when she is angered, she causes famine by withholding sea animals from hunters and whalers.