Luxury cars seized from Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president fetch $27m at an auction near Geneva.

North Dakota's John Thompson became famous overnight in January 1992, when he survived having both arms ripped off on his Hurdsfield, ND farm. The world watched as he regained the use of his reattached arms following surgery. But where is he now?

With 69 children, Mrs Vassilyeva holds the world record for the most children born to one woman.

Unsolved Mysteries has solved over 260 cases in total. Here are just a few.

Denim garment dating from 1880s discovered in western mineshaft, which sold for $76,000, recalls era of Chinese Exclusion Act

The Khejarli massacre was an event in September 1730 in which 363 Bishnois were killed while trying to peacefully protect a grove of Khejri trees. The soldiers were sent by the Maharaja of Marwar, Abhai Singh to cut the trees in the village of Khejarli to…

Peruvian political movement

American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (1928–2014)

behavioral disorder in which an adult fakes an illness in (mostly) a child or other proxy(s)

The indigo lights have spawned theories online about everything from vampires to vaccines, but the City of Vancouver says the LED street lights now shining purple are the result of a manufacturing defect.

He told doctors initially that it just swam in there by itself

Coalinga (/ˌkoʊ.əˈlɪŋɡə/ or /kəˈlɪŋɡə/) is a city in Fresno County and the western San Joaquin Valley, in central California about 80 miles (128 km) southeast of Salinas.

A new study conducted by medical school students and faculty at the University of Minnesota found that medical students of all racial backgrounds disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds. The study raises questions about the importance of socioeconomic…

Since the nineteenth century Jews have been involved in organized crime all over the U.S. Some of the most famous mafiosos including Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Mickey Cohen were all Jewish boys who grew into some of the most influential underground figures…

Steve Jobs explains why Apple's Macintosh computer had a mouse in 1985, and why it was one of the first companies to adopt a graphics user interface.

What could be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham.

relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out at sea

She needs to officially change her name to Mariah 'Christmas' Carey!

<p>Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages, and can tell whether a voice comes from a man, woman or boy, a new study says.</p>

Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born because of the notorious Lebensborn program