Texas Game Wardens and local law enforcement busted a $6.5 million marijuana growing operation in Delta County, northeast of Dallas, this weekend. According to Texas Parks & Wildlife, Delta County deputies and game wardens recovered approximately 6,550 marijuana plants – some as tall as 10 feet – from a one-acre section of the Cooper Wildlife Management Area on Saturday.

At least one tech company in China appears to be taking a page out of Silicon Valley's infamous "workplace culture" handbook by offering its employees some rather unique benefits — one of which includes personal cheerleaders. The country's government-run news service China.org.cn reported last week that internet companies "across China" are hiring "pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment."

Somebody built a methamphetamine lab inside a federal research facility, and a security guard was injured when it exploded. Chemical & Engineering News reports that the explosion took place July...

A malicious Android app that held people to ransom has been discovered by researchers at security firm Zscaler. Adult Player appeared to offer pornography, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone’s front-facing camera. It then locked the user’s device and displayed a demand for $ 500 (£330) which was difficult to bypass. One security expert told the BBC that ransomware was a lucrative and growing area of cybercrime.

Museum defends decision to keep visitors cool during summer despite complaints that sprinklers resemble Nazi gas chambers.

It's not just the southern border: Wisconsin's Scott Walker says it's "legitimate" to discuss building a wall separating the United States from Canada, as well.

China has been accused of pirating movies, handbags, Rolexes -- even cars. Add Goldman Sachs to the list. Goldman Sachs (Shenzhen) Financial Leasing Co. has been operating in the city just across the border from Hong Kong using a nearly identical English and Chinese name as the New York-based financial institution, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It claims on its website to be one of the city’s largest financial leasing firms.

A family in Dublin has discovered the harsh reality of airport security restrictions after their toddler’s Minions toy was confiscated for posing a ‘threat’. The toddler had a Minions Fart Gun taken off them at Dublin Airport on Saturday because toy guns – especially those with a trigger mechanism – are on the prohibited items list.

A Chinese woman sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region was able to evade a prison sentence for a decade by adopting a novel, if slightly extreme, tactic - getting pregnant 13 times before finally being sent to jail by a court.

The GOP frontrunner has arranged to set up his $7million Sikorsky S-76 helicopter in a parking lot outside the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines - after being banned from landing the aircraft on fairgrounds.

Authorities want to talk to a man who donned a fairly realistic bear costume — head and all — and wore it when harassing a bear and two sows trying to feed on pink salmon in an Alaska river. The incident happened Monday on the Chilkoot River near Haines, said Alaska Fish and Game Assistant Area Management Biologist Mark Sogge.

The U.S. military has run the numbers on a sustained fight with Moscow, and they do not look good for the American side. By Nancy A. Youssef.

Not that compassionate people should begrudge her more time to recuperate, but the timing is curious. By Scott Eric Kaufman.

Comments made by businessman and TV personality Donald Trump before and during his run for U.S. president. 

Since the Curiosity Rover - NASA's robot explorer on the surface of Mars - has come back online, images have begun to be transmitted back to Earth. The grainy, black-and-white images are being made freely available online for all to see. It really does show you how far technology has come that we're able to get clear images from Mars and analyse them for ourselves.

North Korea announced Friday it was moving its clocks back 30 minutes to create a new "Pyongyang Time" -- breaking from a standard imposed by "wicked" Japanese imperialists more than a century ago. The change will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea which, like Japan, is at GMT+9:00. North Korea said the time change, approved on Wednesday by its rubber-stamp parliament, would come into effect from August 15...

North Korea is creating its own time zone, moving its clocks back by 30 minutes to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule, the official KCNA news agency said on Friday. North Korea is in the same time zone as rivals South Korea and Japan, nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The change to what it calls

Kim Jong Un isn't exactly viewed as the world's greatest leader by many in the West. However, in his own country, he has demanded god-like status, claiming his family's dynasty has led the country to glory. Now an Indonesian organization has decided to give the reclusive and divisive North Korean leader an award designated for the world's greatest statesmen and peace builders. The Bali-based Sukarno Center has in the past presented the prestigious award to the likes of...

North Korea has called South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye a myriad of unflattering names including a “venomous snake” and a “malignant tumor” and the latest verbal attack seems to have warranted a public statement to defend the country’s leader. “North Korea should immediately suspend its slandering that does not help inter-Korean ties at all,” Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told reporters at a press briefing according to Yonhap News Agency.

Donald Trump tops a new CNN/ORC poll.