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The leading cause of death in adult humans, head injuries, hardly gives a headache to birds that rapid-fire drill their beaks into hapless trees. A new study entitled Why Do Woodpeckers Resist Head Impact Injury: A Biomechanical Investigation from a team of Chinese scientists sought to answer that question.

The 25-year-old LiLo has been busy in Playboy Mansion these past two days, as the troubled Hollywood actress posed nude for the magazine.

The late pop star earned $170 million in the last year, beating Elvis and Marilyn Monroe.

Fiji's national carrier, Air Pacific, has selected Airbus aircraft to renew and to grow its fleet.

Michael Lohan, father of actress Lindsay Lohan, was arrested on Monday, on suspicion of domestic violence.

The U.S is seeking to seize almost $71 million in allegedly corrupt assets from the son of the leader of Equatorial Guinea.

The Obama administration is seeking to seize almost $71 million in allegedly corrupt assets from the son of the leader of Equatorial Guinea, including $1.8 million worth of pop star Michael Jackson memorabilia.

President Obama told Jay Leno during his visit to the Tonight Show Tuesday that you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that Muammar Gaddafi did, but that his death sends a message to other dictators.

Actress Lindsay Lohan's father Michael Lohan was jailed in Florida on Tuesday on a domestic battery charge after his girlfriend accused him of threatening to throw her off a balcony, police said.

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan may have found a way to pay some of her mounting legal bills with a planned agreement to pose nude for Playboy magazine, a source who knew of Lohan's plans said on Tuesday.

Michael Jackson was named this year's top-earning dead celebrity on Tuesday in a list compiled by financial website Forbes.com, earning the title for the second year in a row following his death in 2009.

When Glenn Close sees a good part she goes after it -- even if it takes decades.

Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt looted $190 million from the bankrupt team to fund his lavish lifestyle, which includes eight homes, according to court documents filed on Tuesday by Major League Baseball.

Employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles were advised to stay indoors on Tuesday after a 200-pound bear was spotted roaming the campus.

A nurse said on Tuesday that Michael Jackson sought her help to get the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, but she could not persuade the pop star to avoid the drug that ultimately led to his death in 2009.

Michael Jackson was named this year's top-earning dead celebrity on Tuesday in a list compiled by financial website Forbes.com, earning the title for the second year in a row following his death in 2009.

Rick Perry's tax plan -- one he hopes will boost his Republican presidential candidacy -- gives Americans two options.

Michael Jackson still tops Forbes' list of top-earning dead celebrities, beating out the likes of Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor. View the slideshow to learn who the top 15 highest-earning dead celebrities are according to Forbes, which earned a combined $366 million over the past year.

Two elite boxers meet in less than three weeks

The much-anticipated Batman film will begin shooting on Wall Street on Saturday.

Cherilyn Lee, a nurse who worked with Michael Jackson to treat his ongoing insomnia, will continue her testimony to begin day 17 of the Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial.