A team of music-mad scientists unveiled an extinct, sea-dwelling crocodile from the Jurassic period Wednesday, which they named in honor of Motorhead lead singer Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who died in 2015. "Lemmysuchus" — Latin for Lemmy's crocodile — was about 5.8 meters (19 feet) long ...
A Chinese man was detained after a bus station security scanner revealed he had his brother's severed arms in his luggage, state media reported, but police said he is unlikely to face criminal charges. The 50-year-old was stopped in the city of Duyun in the ...
Two small communities united by unexciting names — Dull in Scotland and Boring in Oregon — have joined forces with a third: Bland Shire in Australia. Dull and Boring became sister communities in 2012 after a Scottish woman passed through the U.S. town on a ...
A 59-year-old woman from the central Chinese city of Wuhan transformed her appearance through plastic surgery in order to avoid 25 million yuan ($3.7 million) of personal debts, the official Xinhua News Agency said. In a case highlighting the challenges facing China as it tries ...
Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. The animal's owners announced the cat's death late Saturday in a statement. "Stubbs lived for 20 years and 3 months," the family wrote. "He was a trooper until ...
The rodent-borne bubonic plague may seem unappetizing, but for a few San Francisco visionaries, it proved just the inspiration needed to launch one of the city's latest eateries: the "rat cafe." The pop-up cafe, which opened Saturday, offers visitors a chance to munch on a ...
It was that moment fans of classical music live for, an international orchestra playing a great masterpiece. And then an unexpected guest star arrived: a stray, and rather lovable, dog. At the outdoor performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony in Turkey, the audience was raptly attentive ...
An elderly passenger who threw coins at the engine of a plane at a Shanghai airport for good luck will not face police action, Chinese state media said Wednesday. The superstitious 80-year-old woman delayed the China Southern Airlines flight on Tuesday for nearly six hours ...
The retirement of Britain's Prince Philip from public life led world headlines Thursday, but his most devout and remote followers have only just heard the news. A tribe in Vanuatu was shocked and dismayed to discover Saturday that the man they pray to as the ...
Liang Shanshan considers herself a mother of two: one child is her biological son, the other is a 16-year-old Chinese teen pop star she has never met. She is a "mother fan" and part of a group of women in their mid-20s to 60s whose ...
In the ruthless world of the mating game, plain-looking men instinctively know that humor, intelligence or poetry helps to compensate for a less-than-stellar exterior. That classic dating wisdom is now validated by science from an unusual study published Wednesday. Average-looking men become more appealing when women ...
Things got real this Friday — real funny — as non-Japanese living in Japan admitted their biggest blunders, mistakes and unpopular opinions using the #gaijinconfessionfriday hashtag.
