Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks And shooting imaginary Game-winning shots In the Great Western Forum I knew one thing was real: I fell in love with you.

Could taking LSD at work make your more productive? “You’re doing a task you normally couldn’t stand for two hours, but you do it for three or four. You eat properly. Maybe you do one more set of reps. Just a good day. That seems to be what we’re dis ...

SPACE: THE FINAL franchise. These are the entrepreneurs funding near space voyages and starship enterprises. Their continuing mission statement: to explore lucrative new orbits, to seek out new ores and new deregulations, to boldly go where no one ha ...

When cord cutting naysayers try to argue that killing your cable TV subscription is a bad idea, they often point out that you won’t save money if you subscribe to all the major streaming services instead of getting all your channels through Comcast, ...

Tchula’s chief of police was drifting into sleep at the desk of his sparsely furnished office. Billy Reed had been describing what it was to run a department with so little money it relied on hand-me-down patrol cars still bearing the markings of oth ...

Walmart employees are so poor that they are skipping lunch, sharing it or, in some cases, stealing it from their coworkers, some of the company’s workers claimed on Thursday while announcing a fast in protest of the company’s wages. Starting Friday m ...

A Russian tourist in India has been admitted to hospital with "severe burns" after being attacked with acid. The incident took place in the north Indian holy city of Varanasi while the woman was asleep, the city's police told BBC Hindi ...

On October 8, 2008, a group of government officials from the Comoro Islands made their way from their villages to a small airport not far from the nation’s capital, where, on a runway overlooking the Indian Ocean, a private plane stood waiting to fly ...

Sixty years ago, nothing could survive in the Thames – but today it is home to seals, porpoises and even the occasional stray whale. On a sunny autumn morning in London's financial district, Rod Guzman is looking for his favourite seal. Right ne ...

Popular West Coast burger chain In-N-Out has filed a lawsuit against delivery startup DoorDash for delivering its burgers, claiming it has asked the service repeatedly to cease selling its dishes. "We have asked DoorDash several times to stop us ...

A New Mexico man was arrested last Thursday after allegedly beating his friend to death with a microwave and a guitar, all because he thought the friend had begun to “change into a zombie.” Damon Perry, 23, told police that he had been binge-watching ...

The year is 2108, and things aren’t going so well for Team Humanity. Earth is so overcrowded that people live in hive-like concrete cubicles called Public Residence Clusters and subsist on reconstituted soy. Things aren’t much better 30 light years a ...

The federal government has been fighting hard for years hide details about its use of so-called stingray surveillance technology from the public. The surveillance devices simulate cell phone towers in order to trick nearby mobile phones into connecti ...

Mark Bowden was watching a ballgame — the Phillies versus the Mets — on the night of May 1, 2011, when the network cut away to President Obama in the East Room of the White House. “Tonight,” the president said, ‘‘I can report to the American people a ...

If you're someone who opens Google Maps on your iPhone every day, you'll be glad to hear that getting directions on Apple Watch no longer requires using Apple's own app. Today Google rolled out an update for its iOS Maps app that adds ...

North Korea is blocking wireless signals along the China border, preventing mobile phones operating on Chinese memory chips from receiving calls. A source located at the China-North Korea border, speaking to Yonhap on the condition of anonymity, said ...

The incidence of narcissism is generally thought to be on the rise, and recently published research sought to examine how aware narcissists may be of their social status and popularity. In their studies, Erika Carlson and Nicole Lawless DesJardins re ...

With the reduction in costs of genotyping technology, genetic genealogy has become accessible to more people. Various websites such as Ancestry.com offer genetic genealogy services. Users of these services are mailed an envelope with a DNA collection ...

At 9am the 1,000 beds at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge were full. Senior nurses gathered together to spin through the state of play. “It’s not a fabulous bed state,” Julie Clayton, the hospital’s operations centre manager, said as she collated ...

It was a promotional stunt that in today’s dollars used a $144 million investment by Boeing. And it was done without the knowledge of Bill Allen, then president of the company, who was watching. And fuming. He was not a happy man. The firm’s future w ...