Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we...

One construction worker is dead and another seriously injured after a hydraulic lift platform collapsed in Massachusetts.

A bad tattoo is something you carry with you wherever you go. A reminder of a momentary lapse in judgment, or a snapshot from a time in your life that you’ve now...

“These are scary times for sex writers,” said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. One publication after another has fired star columnists, including The Village...

A publicist for Meat Loaf says the 57-year-old rocker was hospitalized in London for three days following an awards ceremony earlier this week.

Europe’s stock markets plunged Friday after Wall Street opened a breathtaking 7 percent lower _ below the 8,000 level _ but they soon recouped some of those...

Oil prices tumbled to a one-year low below US$83 a barrel Friday in European trading as fears mounted that governments around the world would be unable to keep the...

A disk which a tabloid said carries personal details on some 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.

For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively follow global economic carnage on Bloomberg, not CNBC. Aside from the latter’s mindless cheerleading, I also take...

Europe is one place which a perfect combination of myth, reality and modernity. Having a history of thousands of years, Europe, believed to have been named after the...

European stock markets slumped in early trading Friday following massive sell-offs on Wall Street and Asia as lending rates between banks continue to rise despite this...

World markets were caught in Wall Street’s downdraft as fears over a global financial crisis sent investors fleeing for the exits.

BY the time Jo was 15 she had slept with three boys her age. Now, 17, the teenager from South Gyle recalls that having underage sex was no big deal. After all, all her...

Guy Ritchie reshuffles a worn-out deck in “RocknRolla,” a return to the shady stylings that characterized his earlier flicks “Lock, Stock and Two...

In an Oct. 6 story about an exhibit of artifacts related to King Tut, The Associated Press erroneously reported that four of the items _ a necklace, a bracelet and two...

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies in European trading Thursday. Gold fell.

A woman was slightly injured on Wednesday after a six-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky through her roof as she slept. The source of the ice wasn’t immediately...

Muslim prisoners are being given fresh clothes and bedding after sniffer dogs search their cells – because they view the animals as unclean.

A car salesman was pushed or fell to his death along a highway as he went on a test-drive with a customer, authorities said. A 42-year-old man with a history of mental...

European markets on Thursday recovered some of Wednesday’s hefty losses after a relatively steady performance in Asia overnight, with British banking stocks in...