Axes, perhaps the first all-purpose tools, date back some 400,000 years, before the discovery of fire. Made originally from crudely chipped stones, the axe eventually evolved into the flint hand variety of the Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic period....

Don’t use an axe to embroider. (Malaysian) Little ax can cut down big tree. (Jamaican) The ax falls first upon a straight tree. (Korean) The ax forgets what the tree remembers. (Roman) The ax strikes the chisel, and the chisel strikes the wood....

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, harvest timber, as a weapon and a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialized uses but generally consists of an axe head with a...

It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it...

With no one ousted at the end of last week's charity-focused show, "American Idol" gave the heave-ho to two contestants Wednesday night _ Phil Stacey and Chris Richardson.The viewer vote tally from last week was added to this week's, with more than 135 million phone...

Brandon Rogers, who forgot the words to his song on Tuesday's "American Idol," had a feeling he wouldn't last. He got confirmation Wednesday. Rogers, a former backup singer from Los Angeles, became the first of the final dozen to be voted off the top-rated Fox...

Ecuador's highest electoral court fired a judge Wednesday who tried to return half the country's legislators to their posts as a political crisis over the rewriting of the country's constitution deepened.The Supreme Electoral Tribunal earlier this month fired 57 of Congress' 100 lawmakers, accusing them...