Harriet Tubman escaped the bonds of slavery as a young woman in the early 1800s. She returned to the South many times as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad to lead other African Americans to freedom. During the Civil War, Tubman served as a spy, nurse…

Justice department traces money from 1MDB fund to $1bn worth of assets such as Beverly Hills property, a Monet and production of DiCaprio movie

In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations. This is done without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline.

No Time to Die, opening in April, celebrates an obsession with Aston Martin. We met the stunt driver who piloted replicas of the classic DB5 in the movie.

Wendy's conspicuous absence from the European market has to do with a business decision it made in the 1980s and a battle that raged in the decades since.

It's easily one of Mariah Carey's most recognisable songs, and it's almost always listed as one of the best Christmas songs ever written - but just how much mon...

5 Things You Should Know About The Making Of ‘No Country For Old Men’

1972 American thriller film by John Boorman

A machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting in which a housing is provided for supporting a heat source and a heated end portion and in which the necessary melting heat is deli

motor vehicle

A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization. An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's…

fictional character on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen sitcom series Community

Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed (loose) adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was supposed to be directed by George Lucas.

A minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died after shooting himself in the head with a blank round before several hundred parishioners, including his family.

1980 British-American horror film by Stanley Kubrick

Paul Gambaccini tells the story of Keith Jarrett's 1975 live album The Cologne Concert.

Burj Khalifa photo from Shutterstock

You'd think that the world's tallest building - a structure that requires amazingly complex engineering and technology to reach its heights - would have an…

Uncontrolled acceleration of a diesel engine

We've never heard of anything like it before.

group of Aboriginal Australian traditional hunter-gatherers

The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried…