High cholesterol is linked to an increase in cardiovascular disease risks. A new study conducted by a pediatric cardiologist at Texas Children's Hospital found that roughly one in every three American children aged between 9 and 11 have high cho ...

Most of America would pick Jennifer Lawrence as their ideal BFF, but one Texas woman took her devotion to the next level. In an effort to more closely resemble the Academy Award Winner, 30-year-old Kitty underwent extensive plastic surgery, spending ...

A central Florida police officer was shot and killed early on Saturday and two pedestrians he had tried to stop for questioning apparently committed suicide, law enforcement officials said.

How does a country that has, by its own admission, only 6,000 combat-ready troops face down the might of a Russian military that has stationed some 200,000 soldiers along its borders? This was a question Ukraine's new interim government had to s ...

The Obama administration on Thursday plans to throw its weight behind a proposal that it says could cut the average prison sentence for a federal drug defendant by 11 months, a change designed to help reduce the massive U.S. prison population.

This is the Bugatti Model 100P: A 900 HP, 500 MPH, race plane imagined by none other than legendary automotive designer Ettore Bugatti, so technologically advanced that it could have single-handedly dominated the skies of WWII for Germany, had the Na ...

SCOTLAND is to offer asylum to Ugandans facing persecution under the country's oppressive new legislation against its gay population.

During 90 years the Warner Bros. shield has undergone a series of refinements. Three variations reflect transitions in ownership (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in 1967, Kinney in 1969 and Warner Communications Inc. in 1972). In 1984 Warner Bros. returned t ...

Encrypted personal cloud storage device Pixeom has just announced it's not just for file-sharing, socialising and buying and selling -- users will also be able to "conquer each others clouds" with a gaming feature.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Mo ...

Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a two-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal. ...

The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated the ability of fully autonomous convoys to operate in urban environments with multiple vehicles of different models. The demonst ...

Analysts say the first cold-weather Super Bowl will pour hundreds of millions into NY and NJ economies. But is America’s biggest sporting event really just more NFL hype?

Human body parts have been found in garbage bags dumped along snowy roads in a rural area of Michigan, authorities said. The body parts are believed to belong to one white male, St. Clair County Sheriff Tim Donnellon said Friday. An autopsy was sched ...

A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John finds 50 more fun facts about the 50 US states.

A petition to deport Bieber and revoke his visa on the White House’s citizen portal reached 100,000 signatures Wednesday morning, the threshold needed for the White House to be required to respond.

U.S. scientists are warning that there are environmental risks, regulatory holes and serious unknowns regarding the shipment of Alberta oilsands products to British Columbia by pipeline, rail and tanker. The findings are in a 153-page report from las ...

Anytime anybody in the universe says something negative about Microsoft, Brad Thorne* loses it. He fires up Twitter: “You’re fucking pathetic!... You have your head so far up your ass!... I can’t wait until you eat your smug words!”

After a brief denial, the Vatican has confirmed that, in his final two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked almost 400 priests for assaulting children. But critics are claiming that the circumstances of the revelations made on Friday could be “damag ...

More international investors will follow the example of Brooklyn Nets' Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov and buy into U.S. basketball, NBA boss David Stern said on Thursday. Wealthy groups in China, the Middle East and Latin America were all poten ...