A major increase in seismic activity led to a rare earthquake warning today for Oklahoma from the U.S. Geological Survey and Oklahoma Geological Survey.

One woman has been killed and nine others injured in a bomb attack aboard a train at a station in the southern Indian city of Chennai, officials say. Explosions were reported in two carriages of the train, which was travelling from Bangalore in the s ...

For Megan Huntsman, life was a miserable struggle. Her marriage decayed into substance abuse and violence, she told people close to her. Her ailing father’s suicide pitched her into despair and heavy drinking. Illness ravaged her family. She lost her ...

Warning: this is a horrible story. 234 young women were abducted from a physics test in Nigeria, specifically to keep them from getting an education. Nothing is being done to find them. Collective public outrage is the only tool that can possibly get ...

During a press conference Friday afternoon in Washington, DC, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also explained that his company intends to file a lawsuit against the US Air Force in a quest to compete for national security-related rocket launch contracts. His rem ...

Bad weather, disease and other factors affecting Mexico’s lime industry have made prices in the U.S. skyrocket, turning the gin-and-tonic twist into a precious commodity. Once upon a time, though, “the only game in town was really the Florida-grown l ...

You probably learned in high school health class that when a sperm and an egg get together, they fuse into an embryo - the early stages of a baby. But what you didn't learn was why and how that sperm and egg found each other in the first place. ...

As part of Boston's new program "Prescribe-a-Bike," doctors can now write prescriptions for low-income patients to get a yearlong membership to the city's shared bike system Hubway for just $5. Doctors at the Boston Medical Center ...

The numbers reveal the horror of the Great War: Sixty-five million soldiers fought. Nine million killed in combat. Nearly 20 million wounded. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the conflict that reshaped Europe, redefined i ...

Tesla Motors released its 2013 shareholder letter this afternoon, declaring record vehicle sales in the fourth quarter and annual revenue of over $2 billion. Looking forward, Tesla says its growing network of superchargers and service centers will he ...

The deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in seven years has killed 70 people and infected as many as 111 in Guinea, causing neighbouring Senegal to close its border. Senegal's Ministry of Interior has ordered all movements of people through the ...

North Korea issued a scathing personal attack Thursday on South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, accusing her of breaking a moratorium on cross-border insults and behaving like a "blabbering" peasant woman.

2.1 million Venetians just voted to leave Italy and restore their medieval republic.

Most people living paycheck-to-paycheck aren't actually poor. They make a decent amount, and they have a decent amount of wealth. And, believe it or not, this makes sense. Now, you might expect that people without any liquid savings like cash or ...

In 1975, Rüdiger Heim landed in Egypt with one question on his mind: Was his father a Nazi? Over the next two decades, he found out.

A man assaulted his wife and locked her in their garden shed after she wouldn't stop singing “ding dong, the witch is dead” following the death of his mother, a court heard.

In two months time citizens of all European Union member states will vote on who can represent them in the European Parliament. Pirate Parties will join the election race In several countries, with Finland having the most prominent candidate in Pirat ...

It must be fun to invent something. One day it does not exist, and the next day it exists. But how would you feel if you didn't exactly know why your new invention worked? The minds behind this all-new microscopic engine could tell you.

Insanity" has two definitions under Colorado law. The first is someone who was "so diseased or defective in mind at the time" of the crime that he couldn't tell wrong from right. The second is someone who suffers from a "ment ...

Pine forest vapors form small aerosol particles that may significantly cool the climate by reflecting the sun's energy back into space, according to new findings.