SOCIETY

Most Gen Xers, the generation sandwiched between baby boomers and Internet-era adults, live active, balanced and happy lives, according to a long-term research from the University of Michigan released Tuesday.

The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, took an unusual jaunt south last night, reportedly appearing in states from Wisconsin to New Mexico and from Maine to California.

Hurricane Rina gained strength overnight, becoming a category 2 storm and churning through the Caribbean on its path to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center reported.

Turkish rescuers saved a two-week old baby who had been buried by rubble after a 7.2 magnitude hit the country on Sunday.

Sometime very early Saturday morning, openly-gay bartender Stuart Walker of Cumnock, Scotland was beaten and then burned alive, by someone. Currently, that is all the information that police have about Walker's murder.

McDonald's has brought back one of its cult classics - the McRib. The McRib is making its return on Nov. 2 in a big way. This is the first time in 16 years McDonald's will introduce the sandwich nationwide.

Moammar Gadhafi was known for many things - his 41-year rule, his tyrannical regime, and (on a much lighter note) his flamboyant style. Gadhafi consistently made outrageous fashion choices with eye-popping colors, crazy patterns, and those quintessential Gadhafi shades.

In America, people spend thousands of dollars to have straight teeth through orthodontics. In Japan, however, a trend has been underway for a couple of years in which crooked teeth through purposeful dental cosmetic surgery have become the rage. In Japan, the crooked teeth trend is called yaeba, or double tooth.

Italian rider Marco Simoncelli’s death Sunday in a crash during the Malaysian MotoGP has sent a warning signal to other riders - a fatal accident like this is bound to happen.

The mystery behind the death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has a new twist, following a leaked video that shows a Libyan freedom fighter claiming he killed Colonel Gadhafi.

NASA's Spitzer has identified signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. This downpour is said to resemble own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to the Earth.

Nara Bancorp Inc , which posted a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, said it had commenced an underwritten public offering of about $55 million of its common stock, nearly a fifth of its current market value.

Libyan rebels, who captured Moammar Gadhafi from a storm drain outside his hometown of Sirte, allegedly sodomized the former leader with an object just after he was detained.

President Barack Obama is targeting African Americans and Latinos with his visit to Los Angeles Monday, but here's the demographic he's really after: People with money.

Levi Aron, the man charged with the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and his attorneys are now saying that a previously offered confession from Aron was the outcome of coercion by the police.

Jill Filipovic, a well-known blogger and the founder of Feministe (a popular feminist blog), took a flight from Newark airport to Dublin on Saturday night. After spending Sunday recovering from jet lag, when she opened her suitcase to unpack her belongings, she discovered a note from the U.S.'s Transportation Security Administration (TSA), with a handwritten message scrawled on it. GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL, it read.

The Guinness World Book of Records might not allot 100-year-old marathon runner Fauja Singh a spot in the book, according to The Associated Press.

When unpacking her luggage after a weekend flight, Feministe blogger Jill Filipovic found a wildly inappropriate note written by a TSA official upon discovering the personal item, also known as her sex toy.

The body of Anneka Di Lorenzo washed up on a San Diego beach in January with a broken neck and back and authorities are seeking the public's help to close the case. Joggers found the 58-year-old model's body on Jan. 4 when it washed up on a restricted portion of Camp Pendleton beach that Marines use for training.

When California lawmakers reached a deal to close a $10 billion budget gap in June, critics warned the agreement relied too heavily on $4 billion in additional tax revenue projected to materialize with a rapidly rebounding economy.

The global population hits seven billion and continues to rise.

We only truly need a couple of things in this world, but too many citizens of the world take them for granted. One is food, something each human should value as individuals and as a citizen of the larger world. On Food Day, a national event concocted by and brought to us by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, we should stop and think -- we are what we eat.

A protest against the online distribution of a video showing a 14-year-old girl performing oral sex has swept social media platforms for days, but while it may seem the majority condemns the Internet trend most people are still after the actual video.

U.S. homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help on Monday when a U.S. regulator expanded a government program in a step that could help up to one million borrowers.

Daylight Savings Time in 2011 is coming to its end on Nov. 6 in the U.S. and Canada, following Oct. 30 in the UK.

The death toll for Turkey's 2011 earthquake has risen to 239 people, with around 1,300 people injured, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Be?ir Atalay has announced and rescue workers aren't getting to casualties fast enough due to a lack of equipment.

Capelin roe and cases of sandwiches are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination, the manufacturers said.

Harold Camping is wrong again about his Doomsday prediction, but by this time around he has already been famously defined as a false prophet by his fellow Christians.

Hundreds of demonstrators protesting economic inequality continued to occupy Frank Ogawa Plaza, outside Oakland's City Hall early Saturday, ignoring a city order to vacate.