Some 1,200 tourists were evacuated on Tuesday from the iconic Paris landmark, the Eiffel Tower, after reports of a fire in one of its elevator shafts between the first and second floor.

A dramatic cloud tower captured from space. An astronaut on the ISS photographed the structure of this burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf. A dramatic cloud tower ...

Today it’s known as Kız Kulesi, or Maiden’s Tower, and over the past two-and-a-half millennia it’s served many roles. Built as a customs checkpoint in 410 BCE, it’s been a defense tower ...