That eternal flame has a whole lot of history—and science—behind it ...

The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics featured the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by tennis star Naomi Osaka. The Olympic cauldron was lit by a torch, but the torch ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting ...

April 16 (UPI) --A symbolic lighting of the Olympic torch early Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, heralded the coming of the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. The ceremony at the site of the stadium where ...

Stepping outside the Maine State House on a 34-degree day wearing only a blue pantsuit and Tevas over a pair of socks, Gov. Janet Mills looked every bit the native Mainer she is when she met a small ...

Dahlia Marlin, 3, of Allentown throws a paper airplane over a map of Israel on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, during a Yom Ha'atzmaut carnival and torch lighting hosted by the Jewish Federation of the ...