AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.

AP - Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision...

AP - Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamp...

Reuters - A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the Whi...

The Yahoo! Newsroom - For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network...

Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.

Don't you just love the guy who leaves his blinker on for hours and hours?

There's just so much hatred out there for Arby's these days.

Primary school children in England will have to learn about evolution under a shake-up of the national curriculum. Schools Minister Vernon Coaker says the subject will be a compulsory elements of a ne...

It's believed that Africa is heading for a smoking epidemic despite a ban on smoking in public which came into effect in 2007. The law states that people can only smoke in designated zones, but despit...

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Davone Bess wants to press charges against someone who was impersonating him on Twitter -- an impostor who used Twitter to chat with fans and even provoked other NFL playe...

It reminds me of every other wedding where there’s that one guest you absolutely hate.

The latest in a long line of Doctor Who-related programmes. A brand new animation starring David Tennant, available from today on the BBC website.

World Fund for Nature(WWF) once again forced to appeal to experts in all state institutions,...

Telegraph.co.ukWhy Google Should Cool It With Chrome OSWired NewsBy Brian X. Chen Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That's what Google should've done with its open-source PC o...

USA Today'New Moon' Sets New Box-Office Record For Midnight ScreeningsMTV.comThursday night's $26.3 million take breaks record set by 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.' By L...

Mirror.co.ukMiley Cyrus' Tour Bus Crash The Latest In A Sad Line Of Rock TragediesMTV.comEarly this morning, one of Miley Cyrus' tour buses crashed in rural Virginia. The vehicle was carrying...

BBC NewsWhat to expect in Senate's Saturday health care voteCNN InternationalSens. Jack Reed, left, Dick Durbin and Robert Menendez, right, hold a news conference about health care Friday at the C...

Telegraph.co.ukOprah Winfrey's departure from daytime: Celebrities, friends weigh inNew York Daily NewsBY Robert Dominguez Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey on the sitcom 'Ellen,' in 1997,...

Growing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration.

A government panel's advice that women wait until age 50 to begin getting mammograms, despite the American Cancer Society's long-standing recommendation of annual screening starting at 40, has created...

An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3m (£1.8m) to settle her claims that she was raped in Iraq by a US state department employee in 2005 while working for a former Halliburton subsidiary.

ELKHART, Ind. - At the edge of this town, at the end of a long driveway, lives Lawrie Covey, who's at the end of her rope.

Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

This video is just of a crowd outside a Border's in Noblesville, Indiana, shouting “Sign our books!” as Palin's enormous tour bus idles. Apparently, Palin left before signing eve...

Well done, ABC7 Local News. (And no, it wasn't me, though if I had access to a machete right now I might copycat. Friday!) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...

Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view... I've come around to the idea of this genre of game ever since the brilliant Learn to Fly . This is a fun one in the same vein, except wi...

Try and make it through a series of brain-teasing puzzles using as few clicks as possible. If you like this one, go back and play the first ClickPlay . Contribute: Add an image, link, video o...

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Out of the myriad of things wrong with today’s society, we need to think Matt and Trey for calling attention to one of the greatest underlying causes of racial tension in the United States. Urinatio...

Pep Squads are not what they appear.

From professional diver Anatoly Beloshchin in a cave at Cenote Angelita, Mexico: We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen l...

It's not just a Hair do, it's a lifestyle.

A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass the rest of us. He went off to A...

Fox News, which was recently caught by Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" for using footage of a Sept. 12 Tea Party rally in Washington evidently to make a Nov. 5 anti-health reform rally look bigger, h...

Tasers are supposed to be used in place of lethal force when a criminal is uncooperative or combative. In this case, however, a ten-year-old was tasered when she was combative as an officer tried to g...

AS A CANDIDATE for president in 2004, Senator John Kerry described international terrorism as "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation,'' and urged voters to think of deadly jihadist v...

*Highland Park, MI. -- A 37-year-old man was arraigned today in 30th District Court after being accused of shooting his teenage son execution-style while the boy pleaded for his life. Jamar Pinkney S...

AP - Virginia State Police say one person was killed when a tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star was not on board.

AP - Missiles fired from a reported U.S. drone killed at least eight suspected militants Friday in Pakistan's lawless tribal area along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said. It was the fourt...

Oprah Winfrey's production company says she is ending her talk show in 2011. (Nov. 19)...

That dreamed she dreamt is coming true! Wow! Susan Boyle came out of nowhere and shocked people all over the world as she performed on Britain's Got Talent. We kind of thought she was just a phase (or...

Oil prices edged down toward $77 a barrel on Friday after a drop in many stock markets and amid concern about the strength of the global economic recovery.

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Dr. Gregg and Kathryn Korbon tell the story of the Brian C. Korbon Field in Charlottesville, Va., named in honor of their son. Before his ninth birthday, Brian told his parents he wouldn't make it to...

In an NPR tradition, the Friday before Thanksgiving is the time for Susan Stamberg to share her weird-sounding — but delicious — recipe for cranberry relish. This year, she's found a real...

Because holiday meals traditionally are laden with flour-heavy foods, the season can be tough for those new to a gluten-free lifestyle. But it's easy to leave out wheat products and still have delicio...

If you're a member of Costco, the nation's largest wholesale club, you may be surprised to learn that Coca-Cola's products are no longer on the shelves. The two companies are locked in a rare public d...

Sarah Palin may be the Republican party's next big hope, but commentator Rod Dreher says her new book, Going Rogue, does little to bolster her image. She may be the perkiest small-town American in the...