SOCIETY

The wildfire surrounding Los Alamos national nuclear lab has become the highest priority fire in the U.S., and poses serious questions on the safety of 104 nuclear reactors across the U.S.

Each year hundreds of Indian girls are being operated on to turn them into boys with the help of corrupt doctors in Indore.

With food prices around the world skyrocketing, increasing hunger and in some cases acting as a catalyst for regime changes in the Middle East, there is more to worry about on the horizon.

Hani Khan, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, who has been fired for refusing to remove her hijab for religious reason, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer, Hollister, is suing her former employer.

A man who recruited and charged some 200 Chinese nationals to join a fake U.S. Army Special Forces unit pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to prison Wednesday.

A grief expert told jurors in the Casey Anthony trial on Wednesday that people suffer in different ways and that young people grieve reluctantly.

Police in Brooklyn have surrounded a Flatlands liquor store where at least two gunmen have barricaded themselves in the store with at least one hostage.

There is a disturbing sociological phenomenon occurring. It's the Philadelphia flash mobs in 2011.

Three men convicted in a thwarted plot to bomb a Bronx synagogue were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison

Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia could soon beat Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, if the Citigroup’s predictions are correct.

According to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA, five monkeys are currently undergoing tests, and one will be selected for the flight on board a Kavoshgar-5 rocket, as part of the space program, potentially alarming Israel and its Western allies concerned over the progress of Iran's missile arsenal and nuclear arms.

A Bronx high school football star was slain when he and his father brawled with parking attendants the accused of stealing a gift from their car just minutes after graduation, police sources said.

The first draft of a law against animal abuse, aiming to protect animals from being hurt or killed in a cruel manner, was completed by a group of experts and was due to be raised for legislation in April, local media reported earlier this year.

A new report from the conservation organization WWF said that some 1,060 new species have been found on or near the island of New Guinea between 1998 and 2008.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico will remain closed through Thursday, June 30, as the Las Conchas Fire is threatening the nuclear lab.

Britain's Prince Harry is dating Florence Brudenell-Bruce, a lingerie and swimwear model, the Daily Mail has reported. If the report is true it effectively negates reports of Harry allegedly dating Pippa Middleton, the sister of Catherine Middleton who married Prince William recently. The report cites sources as saying the two have been having secret trysts 'over the past few months'.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis has been officially cleared for July 8 launch to the International Space Station at 11:26 am EDT, which will be the final flight in the 30-year-old shuttle program.

Six astronauts took shelter inside two Soyuz capsules when a piece of space debris came close to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

On Tuesday (Day 30), Casey Anthony's ex-boyfriend and father took the witness stand, testifying about the dysfuntional family again.

Hani Kahn, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, was fired when she refused to remove her hijab for religious reasons, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer Hollister.

A worker of the Italian Consulate and his wife have been accused of holding a Brazilian woman as a slave in their San Francisco home. They promised of a better life to the women but instead kept her as an indentured servant.

A video on a Chinese male cheerleader has hit the web and instantly became an Internet sensation. The identity of the person is yet to be announced, but some assumes him to be a student from Shandong University of Science and Technology.

Nearly 2,400 Giants T-shirts and baseball caps have been seized by the agencies this fall.

Mark McGovern, 22, admitted at San Francisco General Hospital after sustaining injuries, is in a critical condition.

Nearly half-an-inch of record-break rain fell throughout the Bay Area in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Natsumi Hayashi, otherwise an ordinary Japanese teenage girl who lives in Tokyo with her two cats, has a unique hobby that draws other’s attention – levitating.

Gina Rinehart is on track to amass a personal fortune of $100 billion

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may be arriving in Canada later this week, but royalists in Canada have come up with a longer-term solution for royals in their country: install Prince Harry as their king.

Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.