Frank Maloney, a former boxing promoter in Britain, came out on Sunday at the age of 61 and introduced to the world his new identity - Kellie Maloney. He was behind the boxing career of former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.
The boxed remains of a 6500 year old human skeleton were accidently found in the basement of the well known Penn Museum in Philadelphia. It was left unattended for 85 years in the basement. A project, Ur of the Chaldees: A Virtual Vision of Woolley's Excavations was undertaken to digitalize the museum when this astounding discovery came to light.
Myths and legends have tied the full moon with stories of lunacy and ominous events for centuries, and a supermoon often accentuates these fears. Learn more about the moon and the supermoon and the truth on their effect on earth and human behavior.
Japan got hit by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday afternoon. No damage, only briefly disrupted transportation in the region.
At least nine people were killed and over one million others were forced to evacuate their homes after powerful Typhoon Halong blasted Japan over the weekend. The system is now on its way to Russia's Far East, expected to make landfall by Monday evening.
Despite the first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakening slightly, residents as well as tourists on the Big Island are leaving no stone unturned as they prepare for double whammy hurricanes Iselle and Julio.
Experts from Columbia University have discovered that civilian stressors such as family breakdown, unemployment, money, and legal troubles cause National Guardsmen back from deployment to engage in alcohol abuse more than twice than their civilian counterparts, a report on Medical News Today said.
The U.S. Climate Prediction Center has said the much anticipated El Niño weather phenomenon has fizzled out in the equatorial Pacific. The chances of it happening in the Northern Hemisphere during autumn and early winter had dropped to 65 per cent, from a previous 80 per cent.
Local community members of the Tiwi Islands, located 126 kilometres northwest of Darwin in Australia, killed a 2-metre long crocodile on Wednesday afternoon based on the belief that the reptile was the one that ate a missing 22-year-old man from Melville Island.
Foster parents have been asked to stop sharing their bed with infants by Alberta's child advocate after a six-week old baby, being referred to as Baby Dawn was found dead in her foster parents bed.
August 2014 is going to be a delightful month for sky gazers. There are some spectacular celestial events to witness. .
Woman Experiences Spontaneous Multiple Orgasms : Parkinson's Drug is the Trigger.
Spacecraft Rosetta Makes Historic Meeting with Comet 67P/CG After Decade Long Chase.
Passengers aboard the regular 11 am cruise were treated to a spectacular water animal battle on Tuesday, Aug 5, when notorious 5.5-metre Australian crocodile Brutus battled it out with a bull shark at the Adelaide River.
Consuming five servings of fruits and vegetables can lower death risks, says a new study conducted by researchers from China and USA. The results, published in the British Medical Journal aimed to find out the “dose response” or how much we need to eat in connection with cancer, heart illnesses and death.
When it rains, it definitely does pour, at least for Hawaii which is advising its residents to brace for two storms next week. On the other end of the world, Japan is likewise being eyed by a monster typhoon.
Stress filled jobs, such as service industry and blue collar jobs can increase the risk of heart attack and other heart ailments, said U.S. health officials and researchers at Harvard.
Experts have claimed that astronomers could find evidence of alien life in the next 20 years. In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US planetary scientist Dr Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said, "We can say with certainty that, for the first time in human history, we are finally on the verge of being able to search for signs of life beyond our Solar System around the nearest hundreds of stars."
New Ebola Drug Made From Tobacco Plants Saves Lives of Two US Aid Workers.
Four people were rushed to a hospital in Toronto after they were struck by lightning while taking refuge from the rain under a tree.
An Australian man, who abandoned his newborn surrogate child Gammy in Thailand after discovering that the baby had Down Syndrome, was earlier convicted of child sex offences in Australia.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be unable to comply with a deadline of clearing out radioactive water around the facility.
NASA's Curiosity Rover approaches its first close up of the layered mountain in the middle of Mars's Gale Crater a part of Mount Sharp.The mission that was launched a year ago is nearing its second anniversary of the landing on Mars. Curiosity found important evidence of ancient lakes and river environments. In its second year it has been driving towards the lower slopes of Mount Sharp as a long term science destination, an area 2 miles southwest of its current location. But the outcro...
A breast cancer-survivor died while riding a horse in the beach in South Wales.
Abigail Allwood is the first Australian woman who will lead a National Aeronautics and Space Administration team that will be searching for life on Mars.
Ice creams are a world favourite, the different lip smacking flavours are irresistible. Spanish physicists have added a little more magic into ice creams as they have developed a new ice cream that magically changes colour after every lick. This new form of ice cream is called Xamaleon.
Pregnant women who experience morning sickness are likely to have healthy, and intelligent babies, with a lower chance of miscarriage, says a study conducted by researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Canada. The findings were published in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.
As the reality of climate change is felt across the globe with warmer weather, rising sea levels, and stronger weather disturbances, many communities in the U.S. are working together to create a "green community."
With many products nearing patent expiration, prescription drug sales are expected to surpass the $1 trillion mark by 2020, EvaluatePharma reported in its 7th edition World Preview report.
Thirty-three-year-old Tani Jex Blake, mother of five, from Alberta, Canada, has written an open letter on Facebook, intended for the two men and a woman who mocked her for the stretch marks on her belly. The letter has gone viral, and has also made it to the headlines of all leading newspapers in Canada, and around the world.
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