Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.

atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela

Frustrated by airport security staff, actor Maurice Micklewhite has decided to subsume his birth name to his showbiz moniker for good

"I Lost on Jeopardy" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from his second album, "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. The song is a parody of "Jeopardy" by The Greg Kihn Band, and its refrain "Our love's in jeopardy". The parody's lyrics center on the game show Jeopardy!…

It might seem like mankind has come up with most of the deliciously devilish flavours and midnight snacks for us to indulge in, but if you look a little harder, in many cases I think you'll find that nature was there first, waiting to tempt us all along...…

Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.

1985 murder in Los Angeles by jealous off-duty cop

American politician, 39th President of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means "large foot" and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet…

The domestication of horses was very important in the history of humankind. However, the ancestry of modern horses and the location and timing of their emergence remain unclear. Gaunitz et al. generated 42 ancient-horse genomes. Their source samples included…

Listen to this post In a popular Greek folk story, Zeus is depicted as often descending from Mt. Olympus to visit Earth and mingle with beautiful nymphs. Eventually, Hera, his temperamental wife, [...]

A total lunar eclipse occurred on 1 March 1504, visible at sunset for the Americas, and later over night over Europe and Africa, and near sunrise over Asia.

In a race against time, a team of elite scholars work together to record the final remnants of a rich linguistic history

She was known to have a violent temper, had robbed and murdered her son, and had literally saved her own neck by volunteering to hang 25 individuals including children.

Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono out of $10,000 by sending her a piece of dried grass instead of a hair from his moustache, according to revelations by a former muse and lover.

Canadian-American actor

Swimmer Adam Walker was simply trying to help the dolphins. The mammals returned the favor in a fashion he may never be able to be repay.Walker found himself swimming New Zealand's Cook Strait as a part of the Oceans Seven mission. The British open-water…

Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arcpronounced [ʒan daʁk]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was…

East Asia News -A Japanese railway company has apologised after one of its train departed 25 seconds early, a mistake which it told commuters was "truly inexcusable".. Read more at straitstimes.com.

common marking and a meme from World War II