At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search ...

"It bears repeating that it is often impossible to know exactly when the last animal of a given species disappears in the wilderness. In some cases, I have included a species if it was declared extinct in 2014; this declaration may occur years a ...

Andrew Marantz profiles Emerson Spartz, a digital-media guru profiting from the cat photos, catchy headlines, and GIFs that fill your Facebook feed. After graduation, he and his girlfriend started building rudimentary Web sites, sometimes as many as ...

Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health, how keeping cool can lead to weight loss.

We know more runners run on Thanksgiving than on any other holiday. The threat of abundance in the form of a good meal is enough to send thousands of us out for a pre-emptive 5-K (or 10-K or whatever). So where does Christmas stack up in the must-run ...

Fernando Torres returns to Atlético de Madrid after an agreement was reached with Milan as the international striker will play on loan for the remainder of this season and all of next season. In 2001, at the age of 17, he debuted with Atlético’s shir ...

Greek voters are set to go to the polls after lawmakers failed to elect a new president. This has triggered a snap election, raising fears that the country's financial bailout could be placed in jeopardy.

247 minutes. That’s the small amount of daylight we had to travel, hike and explore southern Iceland. We made sure to not waste a single minute of these precious moments of daylight. That meant driving and hiking through the darkness of 20 hour night ...

Zlatan: ‘to finish second is like finishing last.’, ‘No disrespect to the others but I should be No1 to No5 on that list’

Men who haven't had sex with other men in a year will be allowed to donate blood under a proposed change in FDA policy.

Striker Nils Petersen will leave SV Werder with immediate effect and play on loan until the end of the season for SC Freiburg, who also have a buy-out option for the 26-year-old.

Your body is not a machine, and you shouldn't treat it like one even if you think you can "tough it out." You need to put as much care and consideration on your recovery as you do your workouts. Here are some common running mistakes th ...

New research finds e-readers, like other light-emitting electronic devices, can disrupt normal sleep patterns.

Josh Robert Thompson is the man behind the the voices of Geoff Peterson (robot skeleton sidekick), numerous celebrity impressions, and all of the original voice characters for the last few years of "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". ...

Line-by-line, here's what North Korea really means when it, say, threatens to attack the White House.

In 1776, the Phi Beta Kappa society was founded at the College of William and Mary for men in the "pursuit of liberal education and intellectual fellowship." Over the course of the next two centuries, Greek letter societies proliferated acr ...

The outage comes just days after President Obama announced a "proportional response" to the Sony hack.

The Imitation Game not only fatally miscasts the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing as a character—it also completely destroys any coherent telling of what he and his colleagues were trying to do.

J.R.R. Tolkien once said that “believable fairy-stories must be intensely practical. You must have a map, no matter how rough.” But in Peter Jackson’s new and final Hobbit film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, which opened Wednesday, there ...