American lawyer

One of the world’s most venomous plants, the Gympie-Gympie stinging tree can cause months of excruciating pain for unsuspecting humans.

Yanyuwa language

Priceless Chinese works of art stolen in audacious robberies from galleries and museum in Britain and Europe are thought to be ending up in private collections belonging to Beijing billionaires.

Canadian yacht racer

Cherry Pie is the second music album by American glam metal band Warrant. The record—which spawned the hits "Cherry Pie", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and "I Saw Red"—is the band's best-known and highest-selling release.

"Cherry Pie," which is arguably Warrant's…

A new survey examines the spending habits and attitudes of Millennial pet parents toward their four-legged companions.

Special Effects Guru Dennis Muren talks to HT about computer graphics, the equinox, and owning his own tux. Part of the original team at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Dennis Muren has led the visual-effects revolution from Star Wars through…

One Comcast customer has a Raspberry Pi complain to the company every time his fast connection becomes too slow.

Highway speed limits could save lives and significantly lower carbon emissions. But even suggesting a cap on how fast a car can go is political poison in Germany.

transport economics term

The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and carried…

Mathew Orlov, 46, was angling off the coast of Barwon Heads when he and his fishing buddy reeled in the 8-foot-8-inch female shark.

Japanese construction company

A Florida sheriff's office reportedly overlooked crucial evidence into Caylee Anthony's disappearance

Canadians have presented former Norwegian cross-country coach Bjornar Haakensmoen with more than five tons of maple syrup in recognition of his pole pass to Canadian Sara Renner at the Torino Games.

British-American actor

Former operative says Americans believed the leader was ‘completely under the control of the Soviet Union’, report reveals