A typhoon hitting the southern Philippines triggered flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday.
Visitors to Luoyang, China were shocked this week when the Jian (or Jianhe) river turned a lurid blood red overnight. Investigators found the blood-red shade came from an illegal chemical dumps by nearby plants, but locals claim the river often changes color from pollutants. Here, see pictures of China's eerie River of Blood.
From humble pushcart to hipster food truck, New York City street food isn't what it used to be.
Residents in the British city of Coventry were left puzzled when approximately 100 apples fell from the sky, over the Keresley area of the city, at 7 p.m. GMT, on Monday.
Shirtless men clad in red sweatpants have been lining up for days in Singapore's prime shopping district, part of an advertising gimmick revealing not just muscle but also a gradual unpeeling of the city state's puritanical ways.
Movie studio The Weinstein Company and cable network HBO led rival companies at the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, giving their movies and TV shows a measure of prestige that should lure audiences.
Lucy, a three-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier, is looking for a home.
If Indian policymakers are hoping the country's slowing economy can rebound largely the same way it did from the 2008 global financial crisis, they are dreaming. India's economic slowdown is likely to prolong.
Rapper and movie star 50 Cent hasn't seen the much-talked about Lindsay Lohan Playboy pictures, but he'd like to see them.
Amazon will be releasing a software update within two weeks for their heavily-promoted Kindle Fire in response to performance complaints from users, according to a report on the New York Times.
The Amazon Price Check app seems simple enough. Shoppers use the app, introduced earlier in 2011, to compare the retail giant's prices with other retailers. They scan a barcode, snap a picture, say the product name or type the search.
A jury condemned Joshua Komisarjevsky to die for the brutal murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and daughter Hayley and Michaela. Komisarjevsky will join accomplice Steven Hayes on Connecticut's death row for the triple killing, despite defense arguments that he is mentally ill and was horribly abused as a child.
Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi's profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president's 65th birthday on Friday.
John Lennon was right then, and he's right now: All you need is love.
A storm packing hurricane-force winds hit Scotland and northern England on Thursday, closing roads and cancelling flights across the UK.
As our sun churns out massive amounts of energy, it sometimes belts out enough solar wind to literally sandblast the surface of the Moon. NASA scientists have used a model of the effects of coronal mass ejections -a gargantuan type of sun storm- to determine that such events can blow the equivalent of 10 dump truck loads of dust right off the Moon's surface and into space.
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season because of its low price, has some parents bristling over the simplicity at which children can order from the retail giant and the inability to stop them without crippling the device.
Microsoft is the latest technology giant to storm cable's barricades.
Veena Malik's FHM India cover has sparked outrage, with Pakistanis saying it is a shame for all Muslims and her fathering claiming he has disowned her.
Recent Space Pictures Released by NASA: A New Map of Moon and First Supernova Companion Star [PHOTOS]
Tens of thousands of Southern California residents remained without power on Sunday as officials warned that dangerously high winds would return to the region in the evening.
High winds returned to the Los Angeles area early on Saturday as over 100,000 homes and businesses lost power, due to fallen trees and other damage from an ongoing windstorm.
