Police have arrested a woman who they say threw her baby out of a parking garage.
The long-missing parent yeast of lager beer was discovered newly, and is believed to have sailed from Patagonia in South America, taking a 7,000-mile journey to Bavaria, the birth place of the most popular alcoholic beverage of today.
Another BART protest broke out during the rush-hour on Monday evening, which led to closure of two BART stations - Civic Center and Powell Station in downtown San Francisco. Moreover, 10 protesters, including those aboveground along Market Street and inside the transit system, were arrested by authorities.
The projected path of Hurricane Irene shifted slightly to the west overnight, with a chance of the eye hitting around Wilmington, according to the National Hurricane Center. The National Hurricane Center says Irene will strengthen and could become a major hurricane later today or Wednesday.
The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who hoped to be the next French president, collapsed because what prosecutors believed was strong testimony deteriorated into a fabric of lies.
Police looking for clues in murder of popular resident.
Twenty-four year old Meagan Toothman of Cincinnati becomes the seventh casualty of the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair, bringing the death toll to seven.
U.S. officials are investigating the Selfridge Air Show accident on Sunday, in which stuntman Todd Green fell 200 feet from the airplane to his death.
Seasteading, a unique concept of making self-governed communities at sea, outside the sovereignty of nations, has attracted wide attention of late.
Colorado was jolted by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Monday. The earthquake, which struck at 11.46 p.m. local time, is the largest since 1973 when the state was struck by a 5.7-magnitude quake.
Created by Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, the new memorial features a giant statue of the American civil rights leader and his many historic quotes from various speeches including the very famous I Have a Dream speech, chiseled into a wall.
The fashion magazine Italian Vogue has apologized for an article referring to hoop earrings as slave earrings.
This latest health and fitness activity is called doga, or yoga performed by dogs and their masters. It involves traditional yoga poses and the downward dog, allowing it to perform the practice comfortably.
Hurricane Irene, which marks the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, is expected to hit Bahamas later today and could become a major hurricane on Tuesday, according to National Hurricane Center.
A memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., which opened to the public on Monday in Washington D.C., has become a new attraction.
A 24-year-old woman became the seventh victim after she died in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair this month.
Two former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executives, who had insurance-fraud charges against them dropped, sued former NY governor, Eliot Spitzer, with two multimillion dollar libel lawsuits over a column Spitzer wrote in Slate magazine.
A crowd of 75,000 people witnessed a horrifying moment at the Selfridge, Mich., Air Show on Sunday when a wingwalker, Todd Green, died after falling from 200 feet.
The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have traveled 7,000 miles from Patagonia to Bavaria 500 years ago.
A convicted murderer who escaped from a California prison camp over three decades ago has been recaptured thanks to a clue gleaned from his dying mother, authorities said on Monday.
Ancient ocean life that existed millions of years ago on Earth was supported by mere oases of oxygen, a new study reveals.
Hurricane Irene hit the island of Hispaniola Monday, with 100 mile per hour winds and severe rain battering the Dominican Republic, but so far missing Haiti.
New York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.
Both scientists and brewers knew for long time that the yeast that so happened to give beer the ability to ferment at cold temperatures was a hybrid. The knew it was the Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast used to make leavened bread and ferment wine and ale. But the yeast remained a mystery to scientists who were unable to find it among the 1,000 or so species of yeast known to science.
Hurricane Irene in 2011 is looking to be a fierce one.
Florida's attorney general said Monday that a motion by Casey Anthony's defense attorneys that said she should not have to serve probation on check fraud charges are absurd. The attorney general said that a clerical error is not a good enough reason for her to not serve probation.
Vinegar stored in plastic barrels that once contained antifreeze is suspected of killing 11 people and making 120 others sick in China's northwest Xinjiang region, state media said on Monday, in the latest deadly food safety scandal to hit the country.
After Zachery Tims' death, nearly 5,000 people packed the First Baptist Church of Orlando to say their good-byes to the church leader.
The Selfridge Air Show accident stunned a crowd of 75,000 viewers, many of whom thought it was part of the act, according to ABC's WXYZ-TV.
Zachery Tims' private funeral on Saturday was attended by at least 5,000 people, packing the First Baptist Church of Orlando. During the 3.5 hours of funeral, well-known speakers gave tributes to Tims, senior pastor of Florida-based megachurch New Destiny Christian Center, who was found dead in a Times Square hotel on Aug. 12.
