Jackie Bargas

A controversial New Zealand church has outdone themselves with a publicity stunt just in time for Christmas-with a billboard illustrating the Virgin Mary clutching a positive pregnancy test.

At the stroke of midnight this New Year's eve, millions of people around the world will sing that old favourite "Auld Lang Syne" but how many of us will actually know what it means?

A lawyer representing Muammar Gaddafi's daughter, Aisha Gaddafi, said on Wednesday he had sent a letter to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ask if an enquiry had been launched into the killing of her father and brother.

"To be or not to be..." a man's voice can be heard saying in a recording as it was played on a computer at the Library of Congress on Tuesday.

James Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer, obtained an e-mail chain in mid-2008 describing prevalent illegal voice-mail interception at the company's now-closed News of the World tabloid, according to a interior communications released Tuesday by a parliamentary commission.

TV show "House," mega movie franchise "Harry Potter" and actress Megan Fox were in the company of the rapidly growing Facebook pages in 2011.

The legend of Santa Claus occurred thousands and thousands of years ago and it is one that people from all over the world perpetuate even today.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have been tapering the range where the supposed "God particle" formed at the beginning of the universe may be found, closing in on proof of its existence.

Rights group Amnesty International has expressed their opinion on Saudi Arabia's beheading of a woman found guilty on charges of "sorcery and witchcraft" as "deeply shocking," saying it emphasized the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom.

As Facebook gets ready for a much-awaited public offering, the company is eager to flaunt its force by building on its enormous membership: an upwards of 800 million active users around the world, and more or less 200 million in the United States, or two-thirds of the population.

You're probably familiar with his story, but this is for those who don't really follow football: the Broncos were 1-4 when the coaches benched the first-string quarterback and started Tim Tebow, and fans felt that that they did so because they'd didn't really expect much for the season and that they might as well hush his irritating, unrelenting supporters by letting him try and watching him eventually fail.

Home improvement giant of a company Lowe's Cos. remains under fire and heavy criticism from activists, politicians and customers after pulling its ads from a reality TV show featuring Muslim Americans.

As we saw with Drew Ryniewicz's elimination, fans can get rather intense when their favourite act is cut from the race.

Sometimes, kids and technology mix in a way that is both fortunate and apt. This is certainly one of those times.

Curiosity doesn't always kill the cat. Sometimes, it finds you treasure.

Thousands of traffic enforcers make a great effort to maintain the Philippine capital's particularly gridlocked infrastructure moving about every day, but Ramiro Hinojas is extraordinary and does it with a smile and a little help from Michael Jackson.

The inside of the mansion where Michael Jackson's unconscious body was discovered by convicted killer Dr. Conrad Murray go under the auction hammer next week, closing another chapter on a heartbreaking saga that started in 2009 and ended Nov. of this year with his previous physician behind bars.

A happy bunch of 49 penguins ran to the shoreline from an oil spill off New Zealand have been set free after being scrubbed and nursed back to health by concerned officials.

US soft drinks giant of a company Coca-Cola is for the first time placing the clandestine formula for its major beverage on exhibit.

You know what's actually not true? That counting sheep can help you drift off to sleep.

The mixture of sincere piety and incredible success on the field has made Tim Tebow the most-debated occurrence of the National Football League this year.

In today's virtual world, everyone wants to have faster and better access to information.

The early reviews are in and critics are showering rave reviews for Tomas Alfredson's spy drama. Based on the book by John Le Carre, the movie is masterfully held at the helm and keeps the audience on their collective toes.

Twitter, the Internet's most widespread microblogging service, has gotten a major upgrade, debuting a new look and nifty new features that promise the utmost efficiency in service.

Ever since it was announced that he would take the lead of the new Spiderman movie, fans have been dying to see Andrew Garfield's portray of the web slinging superhero.

Virginia Tech has announced that there is no longer the threat of danger on campus and standard activities can now resume after 2 people (counting a police officer) were shot and killed on Virginia Tech's university grounds on Thursday.

Though they've been getting a bad rep through the years (mostly because of The Black Plague probably), new studies show that it might not be so bad to be called a rat.

As anyone who has taken a cursory course in any art studies can tell you, meaning in any art form is highly objective. We look to past experiences of artist and viewer to look find meaning in the piece or text.

It's no secret that the war in Afghanistan has kept more than a few businesses aloft in these critical financial times but a French human rights activist is attempting a fresh way to break down the cycle of violence in Afghanistan: yoga and meditation