A former soldier who lost his sight when he was attacked in the street has set a new downhill speed skiing record by a blind person of 100.94mph. Kevin Alderton, 34, from Dartford, Kent, set the re...

So it seems there's this new couple coming to town (the husband just got a job with the government). Now they are scouting schools for their children and people are wondering whether they're going to...

Bailing out GM, Ford, and Chrysler is anti-change. Many agree that the United States—and the world—need to shrink the auto industry and grow new industries that use renewable resources and are more en...

One of the central themes both to science fiction and to real-life space progress was the drive to find and eventually travel to extrasolar plants. In recent years, constantly improving computer proc...

For years, high-school science teacher Pauline Harvey went to work thinking her unemployed husband spent all day job-hunting on their home computer. He was hunting, all right - Brad Dorrance would...

Widows of Warcraft, be warned - you may not see much of your boyfriend/partner/husband/defacto/intended in the next six months or so. Today is the day that millions of online players descend into t...

A Brazilian woman was killed by her husband's coffin on the way to the cemetery to bury him, police said. Marciana Silva Barcelos, 67, was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the coffin...

TOKYO – A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, poli...

Germany likes to call itself the "Land of Ideas" - and over the centuries it has certainly had plenty of them. It was Germans who invented the aspirin, the airship, the printing press and the diesel e...

AN obstetrician has declared the pregnancy of transgender man Thomas Beatie "normal" and says the baby he is carrying his healthy. As Mr Beatie and his wife appeared on Oprah this morning, his doct...