Michael Jackson's doctor, accused of killing the pop star with a powerful anesthetic, has joined a small but growing number of U.S. physicians facing criminal charges over their handling of prescription drugs.
At the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, Leila Lopes became the first Angolan woman to win the crown. While their country-woman proudly wore the crown in Brazil, the African nation rejoiced at the victory along side her.
Two people were murdered in Mexico for what they said on Twitter. It is a shocking crime, but not the first time such an event has happened.
Authorities are hopeful that calmer winds will slow the growth of a wildfire in Minnesota that has burned about 100,000 acres.
New York City is set to announce a bike sharing program that will encompass much of Manhattan and Brooklyn by 2012, broadening the city's focus on facilitating bicycle transportation.
After sparking an extensive investigation, a former New York TV meteorologist admitted Wednesday that she invented claims of being assaulted by a stranger in Central Park.
Fewer sea turtles have been killed accidently by American fisheries, according to a new report yet the lack of data being issued by shrimp trawlers has become an obstacle to finding the number of turtles killed by fish hooks and nets.
To tackle manmade climate change, scientists will investigate the feasibility of a geo-engineering project by building an artificial volcano, which will appear in the British county of Norfolk next month.
A Chicago area high school student, who was charged with the brutal murder of his parents in a Cook County, Ill., court Tuesday morning, was reportedly growing marijuana in his parents' home.
One of the most talked about moments of Monday's Republican debate was Ron Paul's response to a question about health insurance and the Tea Party audience's shocking response.
A large wildfire ignited in George Bush Park in west Houston Tuesday afternoon threatened the evacuation of adjacent neighborhoods when ash fell from it. However, the latest update from officials indicate that no neighborhoods were in danger and no injuries were reported, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Rescue workers have found autistic boy Joshua Robb, who was missing since Sept.12 after he ran away from the school.
It doesn't do email, the internet, have a camera, games or GPS navigation, but a new mobile phone from Denmark is literally solid gold.
Bond was denied for a Chicago area high school student, John Granat who was charged with murdering his parents, said Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart.
A Philadelphia woman who gave her son a kidney to save his life has been fired for exceeding her vacation time.
A high school student was charged with the brutal murder of his parents by a Cook County Court on Tuesday morning. John Granat, 17, pleaded not guilty to the charges of first-degree murders but was ordered held without bond.
A new study suggests that a planet is attacking a nearby planet which is 880 light-years from Earth with a storm of X-rays that is hundred thousand times more powerful than what Earth receives from the Sun.
Astronomers have observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby cool brown dwarf that may indicate a massive storm ever seen on a planet.
Gumby's bandit days appear to be over.
Casey Anthony may have suffered a seizure on the day her 2 year-old daughter Caylee died, Casey's mother said in an interview with talk show host Phil McGraw that aired on Tuesday, according to media reports.
Lastel corpse hotel in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, offers rooms for the dead while the bereaved families wait their turn in the queue for one of the city's overworked crematoriums.
An 8-year-old autistic boy who disappeared on Monday morning in Southern California was found safe after more than 24 hours in the San Bernardino Mountains.
The Arctic sea ice extent in the last few days have decline slowly, the National Snow and Ice Data Center on Tuesday said that Arctic sea ice extent is currently at the second-lowest levels in the satellite record since 1979.
NASA has released new data from its orbiting Fermi Gamma-Ray Large Area Telescope showing 1,873 objects shining with the highest-energy form of light.
Facebook has introduced a feature through which users can separate their friends into different groups.
Investigators announced on Tuesday that the suspect in the 1993 kidnapping and killing of 5-year-old Alie Berrelez is dead.
A fire in George Bush Park in Houston continues to burn relentlessly as firefighters try to squelch the grass fire that began on Tuesday.
Sex between the two species was quite rare, according to scientists.
Bystanders came together to lift a burning vehicle to free a trapped motorcycle rider in a Utah town.
Cooler weather gave firefighters a chance to begin knocking down flames of three major wildfires burning on Tuesday in Central California, and evacuation orders were lifted for most residents in the fires' path.
