An employment tribunal has ruled against a British teacher who claimed a noisy chair made classroom life a misery. Bristol City Council confirmed Monday that the tribunal last week dismissed the co...

A 300-year-old book that appears to be bound in human skin has been found in northern England, police said Saturday. The macabre discovery was made on a central street in Leeds, and officers said t...

A California principal is trying a slippery tactic to keep kids from cutting school - greasing the fence. Principal Sergio Garcia ordered heavy wheel-bearing grease applied to the fence around Arte...

A troop of mischievous monkeys at London Zoo have had to be re-trained after showing too much interest in mobile phones....

Macedonia usually only hits the headlines when ethnic tensions erupt. But this small land-locked nation now wants to project a more positive image as the world’s first “wireless country”. In four y...

Chemists have developed a powerful household water purification system that puts the cleansing power of an industrial water treatment plant into a container the size of a ketchup packet. The chemical...

This city's hoped-for bragging rights as home of America's tallest environmentally friendly building could go down the toilet. In a city where organized labor is a force to be reckoned with, the pl...

Newly released research by Sanford Bernstein analyst Emme Kozloff, found that by using “electronic wallets” companies like Wal-Mart could save big. By using customer’s fingerprints as a payment metho...

Engineers are planning a brazen design to ease congestion and reduce accidents here that discards something sacred among American motorists — driving on the right side of the road. Missouri Departm...

A cockerel in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has saved itself from the pot after crowing what its owner claimed was "Allah", the Arabic word for God. The two-year-old rooster was set to b...