Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head has revealed the names of the persons who died in the Tucson shooting on Saturday.
It is a known fact that the process of beautification is an important part of the ancient Egyptian mummification process. To prepare for their afterlife, they decked up in beautiful garments and jewels.
A Boeing 737 crashed in Canada's high Arctic on Saturday, killing 12 of the 15 people on board, the government transportation agency said.
Scientists at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday that the Mysterious orange goo collected on the shorelines of a remote Alaska village turns out the substance is made up of fungal spores.
A freak flash flood caused by heavy rainfall in Pittsburgh, killed at least four people.The body of the possible fourth victim has been found, authorities said on Saturday. The heavy deluge overwhelmed the city's sewer system during rush hour, submerging dozens of vehicles along a street near the Allegheny River.
Los Angeles police said on Friday they were looking for a group of masked thieves who stole an estimated $2 million in diamonds in a backpack from a man whose car they intentionally struck.
Due to global warming, plant and animal species are shifting their natural habitats towards the north at a faster rate, reveals a survey of over 2,000 species.
Tropical Storm Irene, which is the ninth storm for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Saturday east of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands.
Recovering Representative Gabrielle Giffords now knows who died in the Tucson shooting spree this January that left six dead and her own survival from a wound uncertain, her senior press adviser said on Saturday.
Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, is being held in a facility in Hinds County near Jackson without bond.
Pastor Zachery Tims' funeral arrangements are set for Saturday 11 a.m., at First Baptist church of Orlando, but the ceremony will be held privately and will not stream live online.
Antonio Diaz Chacon, who has been honored as hero after he had rescued a 6-year-old girl from an alleged kidnapper, acknowledges that he is an undocumented immigrant.
The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2009, the latest year for which data are available, hit its lowest since tracking began 70 years ago, the Center for Disease Control said on Tuesday.
Lawyers for the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault have explored a deal in which they would scuttle the criminal case in exchange for a monetary settlement in the civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Planking, a game between friends to have fun that involves simply lying down with face and feet straight down and arm by side, is viral on the Internet.
By listening and monitoring sound waves around 37,000 miles above the surface of the sun, it is now possible to predict the appearance of sunspots almost 2 days before hand.
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. aka West Memphis Three are now free men. Nearly after two decades, the trio, imprisoned for murdering three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas in 1993, walked out of a courtroom on Friday proclaiming their innocence.
Officials from the New York City Police said that an officer has been arrested on charges of raping a 25-year-old teacher in an apartment backyard.
In a bid to track future sea-level increases from climate change, researchers at NASA have come out with the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.
The death toll in the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair last Friday rose to six after the death of a Ball State University senior.
Thousands of sunflowers planted at Joenji temple in Fukushima, northern Japan, to help fight the radiation from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, have blossomed.
Britain's Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge visited areas affected by recent violent disturbances in Birmingham in central England on Friday.
The latest haboob to take over Phoenix downed power lines and halted public transportation. Dust sure loves that city.
The map, which will be beneficial for tracking future sea-level increase from climate change, provides the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. It shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep interior to its coast, NASA said.
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. were released from prison on Friday. They were convicted of murdering three 8-year-olds in West Memphis, Ark., in 1993. The trio was allowed to plead guilty to murder in exchange for time served. The guilty pleas ended a long-running legal battle that had sparked questions about DNA and key witnesses.
Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a judge ruled.
Three men jailed for the Satanic 1993 slayings of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas walked free on Friday after nearly two decades of proclaiming their innocence from behind bars.
The West Memphis 3 gets freed with an unusual plea deal where they get to maintain their innocence.
An ugly footage of the Spain protest against Pope Benedict XVI's lavish four-day visit to the economically struggling country has surfaced. (The visit will cost the country $61 million, according to Washington Post.)
A high-profile search of the Nevada desert for 28-year-old Susan Powell, the woman who vanished in December 2009, was conducted due to important and credible new insight into the case. Forty-five detectives and other investigators searched a region outside of Ely, Nev. Friday.
