The Crown Princess cruise ship tilted 38 degrees during a steering malfunction near Port Canaveral -- which was reportedly five degrees from flipping over and sending passengers into the sea, accordin...

GIANT cracks have opened in one of the world's tallest dams, just months after completion. The cracks appeared after a tunnel collapsed on 20 June beneath the 200-metre-high Campos Novos dam in southe...

Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off. Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old e...

Yao Defen, believed to be the world's tallest woman, has begun treatment in a Shanghai hospital to rid her of a brain tumor at the root of her gigantism. Yao, from a poor farming family in eastern...

Can concrete float? Twenty-three student teams from around the country are competing in a concrete canoe competition to find out. Staying afloat has a lot at stake _ there's even a national champio...

Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists...

For other people, it’s just a child strolling through the mall. But for 11-year-old Amber Brister, a trip to the mall is a very big deal. Amber is out of the hospital, and happy to be shopping again w...

At St. Joseph's Women's Hospital, any day is a good day to have a baby, except maybe Tuesday, June 6, 2006. Hollywood took the numbers 666 and turned them into black gold, but those numbers hold a ver...

The International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia plans to raise funds with an unusual duck X-ray. The bird came in with a broken wing, but when Marie Travers, assistant manager of the center,...

Willy Wonka could have powered his Great Glass Elevator on hydrogen produced from his chocolate factory. Microbiologist Lynne Mackaskie and her colleagues at the University of Birmingham in the UK...