High IQ Linked To Reduced Risk Of Death

A study of one million Swedish men has revealed a strong link between cognitive ability and the risk of death, suggesting that government initiatives to increase education opportunities may also have health benefits.

Robot teacher makes debut in Japan

In what could be a harbinger of the future, elementary-school students in Tokyo are being taught by a robot. Saya is the result of 15 years of research and is being ...

Monkey gets revenge on owner with coconut

A monkey who tired of being forced to climb trees to pick coconuts killed his owner with a well-aimed coconut. The owner died immediately from the monkey’s throw from the top of a tree...

Tallest Man

The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow. He was born at Alton, Illinois, USA, on February 22, 1918, and when he was last measured on June 27, 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.

Parents face court action for removing children from gay history lessons

More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships. The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.

The planet Venus appears immediately to the right of a thin crescent moon

Suspicious teacher exposes double life of girl, 15, earning L100,000 a year as an upmarket prostitute

A 15-year-old schoolgirl earned almost L100,000 a year working as a high-class prostitute, it was revealed yesterday.

Turkish plane crashes at Amsterdam airport

A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam's main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said.

Public Toilet In Houston

Interesting pictures of public toilet in Houston ...

Man Tree

Dede Koswara -- dubbed "Tree Man" because of the massive bark-like warts all over his body ...

Lee Redmond shows off her fingernails

Lee Redmond shows off her fingernails, which are about 30 inches long in Salt Lake City, Aug. 8, 2006. ...

NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA Spitzer Space Telescope artist's conception shows a binary-star system, called HD 113766, where astronomers suspect a rocky Earth-like planet...

Bodyshock: The Amazing Story behind the 256 Year-Old Man

According to the 1933 obituaries in both Time Magazine and the New York Times, Li Ching-Yun was reported to have buried 23 wives and fostered 180 descendants by the time he died at the age of 256.

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2009

International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming ...

Adrift for 40 days: British couple cheat death after 12-day Antigua voyage leaves them stranded in storm-ravaged seas

A British couple have been rescued from their stricken yacht by an Italian oil tanker after spending an incredible 40 days drifting across the storm-ravaged Atlantic Ocean...

How To Be Happy

While people have many and varied goals that they pursue, there is an almost universal underlying goal to virtually all pursuits: the goal to be happy. People who spend a lot of time making money...

Baby-faced boy who became father at 13 'was allowed to share bed with girlfriend, 14'

The parents of a schoolgirl mother allowed her to share a bedroom with the baby's father who was aged just 12, it emerged today.
Chantelle Stedman was 14 when she became pregnant by Alfie Patten, who although now 13 is barely 4ft and looks about eight.

Pictured: The eight little wonders of the maternity ward

Their arrival has not been greeted with universal approval. But no one could fail to be touched by these first pictures of the American octuplets. Their unemployed single mother, Nadya Suleman, presented her babies to the world yesterday.And she admitted they were conceived with sperm from the same donor who fathered her first six children - a man who has never seen any of them.

Just why are chips so appealing? Because they smell of butterscotch, onions... and ironing boards (say scientists)

Experts studying the complex aroma of chips have discovered what makes the snack smell so delicious. Tests on the corner-shop favourite have found they smell like butterscotch, onion and ironing boards...

Weather casualty Abandoned badger cub saved from freezing temperatures by wildlife-lover

Abandoned in the snow, this five-day-old badger cub was on the brink of death. Luckily, like most babies, she could raise enough of a racket to wake the neighbours. A homeowner heard whimpering in the garden in Torquay, Devon and found the cub lying on top of a sett.

MySpace removes 90,000 sex offenders... but paedophiles may be turning to Facebook instead

There could be up to 100,000 sex offenders using Facebook, one internet security chief claims (posed by model)

A major social networking website has barred 90,000 sex offenders from using its services in a crackdown on the online grooming of children.

Excess blood sugar could harm cognition

Study links persistently high readings to poor performance in older people who have diabetes

Chronically elevated blood levels of the simple sugar glucose may contribute to poor cognitive function in elderly people with diabetes, a study in the February Diabetes Care suggests.

America abortion debate reaches into African slums

Dr. Walter Odhiambo, the country director for Marie Stopes Kenya, responds during an interview in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. He said his family planning organization had been limping along on European aid because of the U.S. rule U.S. President Barack Obama overturned on Jan. 23 in one of his first presidential acts.

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