Nick Brown, 11, was playing on his Apple iBook laptop about one month ago when, like most children, he got distracted and left the room. His mom, Cindy Brown, explains what happened next. "My husba...

Listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent, according to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing. It can also make peopl...

Researchers in the US and Britain have unveiled their blueprints for building a cloaking device. So far, cloaking has been confined to science fiction; in Star Trek it is used to render spacecraft...

In Michigan, a police car camera caught a terrifying crash on tape. Emily Bowness, 29, of Grand Rapids, was driving her SUV on Monday when another vehicle sideswiped hers near the Webberville entra...

A six-minute film showing a grumpy man scolding a fellow Hong Kong bus rider for interrupting his phone call has become one of the most popular videos online. "Bus Uncle," as the film is commonly k...

Well, damn. Who would have thought that tampons were ‘inappropriate products’ to advertise while the Pope was in town? It seems that all traces of anything related to sex, bodily functions, or materia...

Venezuelan politicians have complained about a forthcoming "shoot-em-up" computer game that simulates an invasion of the South American nation. In production by Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios,...

Rome is the home of gelati ice cream and for generations, citizens and tourists alike have forsaken dessert in a restaurant for the simple pleasure of sitting outside with a takeaway cone. The last...

The triumph of mountaineer Mark Inglis, who last week became the first double amputee to climb Everest, has been soured by the news he left a dying climber to his fate. Ethicist Daniel Sokol asks whet...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Monkeys and apes in Budapest's Zoo drink their way through 55 litres of red wine each year, albeit in small quantities each day, to help boost their red blood cells, the zoo said...