The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats, which comprise…

One generation's master is the next generation's hack. One generation's classic is the next's punch-line. Witness the case of Edward George Earle Bulwer, Baron Lytton of Knebworth–or, as he became known to later generations, Bulwer-Lytton.

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A district court on Wednesday ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay 49 million yen in compensation to the parents of a teenage boy killed in

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Why a sliver of the Basque country changes national allegiance twice a year.

The idea for YouTube grew from two (very) different events: Janet Jackson’s “nipplegate” at the 2004 Super Bowl and the tsunami in Asia that same year.

The Rock 'n' roll legend changed the world of music, but he has another important legacy that's less well-known — without his assistance, the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor might not exist.

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Sylvester Stallone reminisced about owning just two pairs of pants and hole-filled shoes when he started out in Hollywood.

Our gold vaults hold around 400,000 bars of gold, worth over £100 billion.

Canadian psychologist Peter Suedfeld is studying stress in the world's harshest environment

John Carpenter is an American game show contestant and IRS agent. He is best known for becoming the first top prize winner on the United States version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight were feasible. In this period, the Soviet Union launched missions with passenger slots for at least 57 dogs. The…

The average male height in the Netherlands has gained 20cm in the last 150 years.

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Fred Rogers, who was born 90 years ago today, remains an icon of kindness for the ages.

Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.