Humans may not be the only ones heeding posted speed limits. Birds apparently take this information into account to avoid being hit by oncoming traffic as they forage near roads.

More than one in every four young, white U.S. women uses an indoor tanning facility at least once a year, according to a new study.

A group of veteran security experts and former White House officials has been selected to conduct a full review of U.S. surveillance programs and other secret government efforts disclosed over recent months.

WikiLeaks has released a trove of encrypted “insurance” data on Twitter and Facebook. The data can’t be read without an encryption key, but the movement’s supporters say that could be published later in case anything happens to leading WikiLeaks figu ...

Hannah Anderson, the 16-year-old teen who was rescued Saturday from her alleged abductor following a multi-state manhunt, made her first public appearance since her ordeal.

When you think of Soviet propaganda, the images that come to mind are of hammers, sickles and severe portraits of Stalin. But, from 1929, the USSR attempted a very different form of marketing - selling the country to foreigners as a desirable tourist ...

It's been two and a half years since I last paid for cable television. The other week I decided to get back on the wagon.

These sixteen incredible bookstores have both the looks and the books.

The Swiss prison guards agree that marijuana use among inmates is a good thing.

Discovery of furry animal with sharp teeth and poisonous spur provides more clues to the evolution of mammals.

The average increase in a person’s rated attractiveness after facial cosmetic surgery was 0.08 on a scale of 1 to 10.

China's new leaders are close to abandoning the country's one-child policy, belatedly moving to avert an ageing crunch as the work force goes into sharp decline.

At 119 years old Johanna Mazibuko, who lives in small town south-west of Johannesburg, could be the world's oldest person.

Cowboys Stadium is dead. Today it was announced that, effective immediately, the home turf of one of the NFL's most storied teams has been renamed AT&T Stadium. It's rumored to be a multimillion-dollar deal, but neither side is putting ...

When I was on death row, I saw guys come to prison sane and leave this world insane, talking nonsense on the execution gurney. I am death row exoneree #138.

When you totally excise all the racial purity rhetoric and genocide and wholesale destruction of humanity, Adolf Hitler is basically Mr. Bean. At least that's the verdict of some folks across Asia.

Though it's a popular excuse for celebrity infidelity, there's some debate over whether sex addiction actually exists. The latest edition of the psychiatrist's bible, the DSM, is little help on the subject, listing hypersexuality (i.e. ...

It's impossible to know exactly what the results would have been, but it's mind-boggling to think how close we were to these.

When you spend nine months isolated in nonstop, freezing darkness, you run out of the good beer fast.

The use of graphene in telecommunications could dramatically accelerate internet speeds by up to a hundred times, according to new research by scientists in the University of Bath's Department of Physics.