U.S. authorities seized a valuable painting of Christ from a Florida museum on Friday. The painting is believed to have been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Former St. Louis Cardinals star Bob Forsch died on Thursday at his home near Tampa, Fla., at the age of 61, a team spokesman has confirmed to the media.
A man accused of murdering his ex-wife and seven others in an October shooting rampage at a California hair salon was sued on Friday by his former spouse's parents.
Sports reporter Barry Deley is one lucky man: he won a $2 million BC Children's Hospital Dream Lottery on Monday and best of all, his longtime Global TV BC colleagues Sophie Lui and Squires Barnes were the ones to announce it.
In downtown Oakland, California, where protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrated on Wednesday, a makeshift shrine honors Scott Olsen, an Iraq war veteran who has become an accidental symbol of their cause.
A bikini-clad woman floating on a surfboard a quarter-mile from Seabright Beach found herself amongst a group of kayakers, all whom witnessed close-up two humpback whales feeding on anchovies and plankton near Santa Cruz, Calif. Barb Roettger had her camera rolling and captured the two whales feasting near the unsuspecting witnesses. The video has since gone viral.
Just as the weather outside starts to turn frightful and the holidays approach, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Thursday a new policy that will make it harder for homeless people to gain entry to the city's shelters.
Keith Clinkscales, a former senior vice president at ESPN, is denying allegations that he masturbated next to ESPN correspondent Erin Andrews on a plane. Clinkscales' lawyer, Judd Burstein, filed a lawsuit against Joan Lynch, the former colleague of Clinkscales' who supposedly leaked the story to Deadspin, according to the Huffington Post.
Daphne Guinness, the Queen Bee of avant-garde, graced FIT with her fabulousness Thursday. The stunning artist posed playfully for photographs with the budding-fashionistas and signed autographs (some on pieces on scrap paper), reports Women’s Wear Daily. Like the Marie Antoinette of the Hell’s Angels, Guinness wore 10-inch Alexander McQueen heels, a Parisian coif, and stacks of metal rings and ribbons around her fingers and wrists.
Diets are like trends they grow in an out of popularity according to which celebrities take notice, but the latest Dash diet has scored great acclaim from ordinary dieters as well as professional dieticians.
Elderly nursing home residents may suffer more complications from major operations than other people their age, a new study finds.
Rescuers have pulled seven people out of the Qianqiu shaft in city of Sanmenxia in the central Chinese province of Henan on Friday, but 50 more are still trapped.
Are you still pondering about the much awaited cataclysmic 2011 dates - Oct 21 and Oct 28, a prediction that passed by quite uneventfully? It could still be worthwhile to muscle up courage and brace up for the next two dark dates of 11/11/11 or Dec. 21, 2012.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) would officially end at 2 a.m. Nov.6 when clocks are turned one hour back.
A 47-year-old Chicago man with a possible history of mental issues died after apparently trying to remove a pacemaker from his chest, officials said.
Daylight Savings Time, for most people in the U.S. and Canada, ends on Sunday at 2 a.m. Remember, at that time, to turn all clocks back to 1 a.m. local time. Airline schedulers see Daylight Saving Time as yet another headache.
Determined to reveal the India behind the glitz and glamour of its economic boom, Sonia Faleiro spent five years immersed in the brothels of Mumbai - befriending bar dancers, transsexuals and policemen.
After a decade-long gap, the 'Miss World' contest is back in London, but the feminist organizations are set to protest the beauty pageant, which, according to them, is a sexist event.
A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.
Police has stated that it is too late to prosecute after YouTube footage shows William Adams thrashing daughter, Hillary Adams, with a belt.
A man accused of shooting his ex-wife and seven others dead in a California hair salon told police he contemplated the killings while sitting on a beach after a quarrel with his former spouse, court documents showed.
Michael Jackson paid with his life for the criminal negligence of his personal doctor, prosecutors told a Los Angeles jury on Thursday, but defense lawyers said there was no evidence any crime was committed in the singer's 2009 death.
Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner will be executed as planned on Nov. 9, as a judge has denied his request for testing DNA evidence that his attorneys have said could prove that Skinner is innocent.
A former sanitation worker charged with murdering 10 women and girls as a Los Angeles serial killer dubbed the Grim Sleeper is now considered a suspect in six more slayings, police said on Wednesday.
Scott Dekraai, a man who was the suspect of last month's mass shooting at a salon in coastal town Seal Beach in Southern California, has confessed to the police he had pondered killing his ex-wife.
Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray told the judge on Tuesday, Nov. 1, that he will not testify in his trial. Murray held his hands over his mouth before the judge asked him to speak?
Phoenix Jones, the Seattle superhero, loses job following his arrest last month.
April Pratt's name mysteriously popped up on Twitter's trending list on Wednesday in the same way Amber Cole's had weeks ago, and indeed there are parallels.
A statement filled with criticisms, which was released by the Oakland Police Officers' Association, is accusing the mayor of Oakland about her confusing stance on the Occupy Oakland encampment.
It was a water, water, everywhere situation, on Wednesday, in a wildlife park in Thailand; flood waters entered the animals' territories, making them anxious and panicky, forcing many of them to run away.
