A former soldier who lost his sight when he was attacked in the street has set a new downhill speed skiing record by a blind person of 100.94mph. Kevin Alderton, 34, from Dartford, Kent, set the re...

Germany likes to call itself the "Land of Ideas" - and over the centuries it has certainly had plenty of them. It was Germans who invented the aspirin, the airship, the printing press and the diesel e...

AN obstetrician has declared the pregnancy of transgender man Thomas Beatie "normal" and says the baby he is carrying his healthy. As Mr Beatie and his wife appeared on Oprah this morning, his doct...

Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity....

Excavations in Portugal brought a great treasure to archaeologists, who found over 4,500 ancient Roman coins, which were hidden in the wall of a blacksmith's house. The house stood somewhere around th...

A generous person, whose name is unknown, has donated a 1/2 ounce American Gold Eagle coin, which enriched the kettle of the Salvation Army....

A man who owned a very rare Sacagawea error coin had thrown it away. Some time later he found that the coin was in fact worth 10,000 US dollars....

Ms Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, also called on the international community to denounce Chinese rule in Tibet. She spoke out while holding talks in northern India with the Dal...

Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and had confirmed the presence of water th...

Just a few weeks ago, I was part of a huge conspiracy of anti-racist activists - activists who, online and in public, were bent on the destruction of the Ron Paul Campaign. We used our websites and ou...