The US authorities have warned that the addictive drug methamphetamine has become a "global threat". US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Karen Tandy said global users of methamphetamine...

A bodyguard of an Iraqi Shia MP has been hit by security staff of the Iraqi parliament's Sunni speaker in a row sparked by a mobile phone. MP Ghofran al-Saadi said her bodyguard was attacked when t...

Even the very best can make a mistake. Back in early March, the pilot of a Korean War-era fighter jet made a belly landing during an air show practice session in Tucson, Arizona. We now know why....

A 13-year-old boy told police his mother required him to do his homework first thing when he got off the school bus, then smoked marijuana with him as a reward....

Is America too ethical to have cheap gasoline? That is the inescapable question presented to U.S. investors and policy makers as pump prices soar after a state visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao....

We could power a whole new country with the amount of heat that politicians and angry motorists are generating over rising gasoline prices. A bit of the anger is justified if, as the evidence shows...

A Morrisville, Pa., woman has pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges after authorties say she used phony documents to steal a house. Bucks County prosecutors say Wendy Jean-Francois, 44, had 97...

Here's a world record to set tongues wagging. German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue. "My friends alw...

Two strains of bacteria are the key to making beans flatulence-free, Venezuelan researchers reported on Tuesday. They identified two bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, which...

An Iraqi actor who plays a hijacker in a new film about the September 11 attacks on the United States has been denied entry into the country for the movie's premiere, he told a newspaper on Friday. ...