Meg Robustelli had heard reports that a chemical in most plastic baby bottles could be dangerous, but she had not done anything about it. That's when her mother stepped in and bought her glass bottles...

Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash. He immediately grabbed t...

A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report. Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic wa...

Some of the video game industry’s smartest minds thought that couch potatoes wanted richer graphics and more challenging virtual worlds. It turns out that a lot of potatoes simply wanted to get off th...

An overweight woman who got stuck in a South African cave trapped 22 fellow tourists for more than 10 hours and had to be prised free with liquid paraffin. The woman became trapped in the Tunnel of...

Bells tolled last week for Dec. 7, 1941 — the date that lives in infamy. This story starts the day after. Young patriots rushed to the nation's defense. Don Karkos tagged along after school as his...

"Stop right there! And what about excess weight?" A Ukrainian scientist has invented a plate that needles overeaters with sharp language, as his contribution to the international war to control excess...

The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent, it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electri...

Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Four men traveled...

Dark chocolate may be just what the doctor ordered, according to a new study out today, which reveals that eating a few squares every day can improve the health of your heart. The chemical in cocoa...