A police officer opened fire on a colleague before turning the gun on himself after an argument at an airport in Turkey, according to local reports. The incident occurred at about 4:20 pm local time on March 26 at the security desk of Kayseri Airport’s domestic departures terminal. According to Turkish media outlet Hurriyet, an […]

NSW Health is warning the public against using weight loss products that contain the potentially deadly chemical DNP—also known as 2,4-dinitrophenol. The weight-loss products, that contain this chemical are known to be called ‘Shredders’, and they are marketed to the fitness, weight loss or body-building communities. The government body is telling the public not to […]

At some point one might think that the general message would sink in—guns are not toys. Guns can be dangerous if mishandled. Friends can shoot their friends in the head if they get careless. Yet again, a young person has been shot by his own friends while playing with a loaded firearm. In this case, […]

An Oregon teenager killed himself while playing a game of Russian roulette. The teen showed up at a mobile home in Sherwood, Oregon, with a gun. He then proceeded to play Russian roulette by himself, KOIN reported citing police witness interviews. The teen was already dead by the time police arrived at 4 a.m. at […]

Throwing an egg a long way isn’t hard. Catching it whole is the trick. Ask World Egg Throwing Championship winners Ben Sudell and Joe Beveridge. They managed to throw—and catch—an egg unbroken for 55 yards. They did this Sunday, June 25, at the World Egg Throwing Championships in Swaton, England. Egg-tossing is a serious sport. […]

SANDSTON, Va.—Authorities in Virginia say a teenager has died after shooting himself while playing a Russian Roulette-style game during his 18th birthday party. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports court documents show police found Austin Balcarcel with a gunshot wound to his head Sunday at a home in Sandston. 18 year old Austin Balcarcel of Virginia, kills […]

Watching superstar players egg themselves is a rare treat.

Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away. Content is removed from Netflix each and every month, but new content is added as well. The problem is keeping track of all those additions and subtractions, and finding good content to watch when you want to watch it

The financial industry did not very much the last years to improve its reputation. Consider the huge amount of bonuses CEOs receive annually. But the most striking example is the financial crisis which affected large parts of Europe, with Greece on the edge and many other countries struggling with the austerity policy proposed by large […]

Pick up a box of conventional sanitary pads and try to read the ingredients. You can’t because they aren’t listed.

Our health can suffer just as much from overtreatment as it does from neglect. It’s only natural that we dislike illness—the symptoms certainly are unpleasant. However, symptoms are more than just signs of illness. They are the product of an active fight against it. They actually mean that your body is healing itself. A healthy […]

The rate at which we are getting introduced to a bunch of new gadgets and technology each day, it feels more like living in a kaleidoscope that changes formation every now and then. What seemed afresh a couple of years back may not look that revolutionary today because of the way technology is improving day […]

Corn and soy are not the only concerns.

Roger Quan, also known as Rogue, is a magician who competed on America's Got Talent. But first, he had to overcome lifelong insecurities.

If you don't know whether or not you're eating genetically modified organisms, you're not alone

Billionaire and real estate tycoon Alexander Rovt explains his conservative business strategies.

Macau’s gaming boom just keeps on giving. Gambling revenues soared to a new high of $45 billion last year, a whopping 18.6 percent rise over 2012 and the city’s sixth straight year of record earnings. Casinos in this former Portuguese colony, which returned to China in 1999, now earn seven times more than they do in Las Vegas. Casino jobs, which pay 30–40 percent higher than in other sectors, approach a quarter of the labor force. Add in casino-related positions like retailing and hospitality, and about half the working population in this city of 600,000 is connected to the gaming industry. The result is an enviable unemployment rate of 1.8 percent.

One of the capital city’s business moguls, Greenberg recently shared some lessons learned while “passing the baton” after two decades of leading the family business.

A jury deliberating a Katherine Jackson's lawsuit against AEG found that the company was not liable for hiring Dr. Conrad Murray in the Michael Jackson wrongful death case, according to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

Michelle Knight's courtroom statement on Thursday targeted her captor, Ariel Castro.

Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to kidnapping and holding captive three young women in his Cleveland home, and to aggravated murder for killing an unborn child from one of the women. Judge Michael Russo cited several cases, but said that they were “nothing like this.” […]

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who held three women captive for a decade, acknowledged during his sentencing hearing that he played Russian roulette with them.

Just when you thought nobody could make a decent action-thriller buddy-cop movie (not counting “The Heat”), along comes “2 Guns.” They rarely make ’em this good anymore.

McCarthy handily steals every scene from Bullock, and that’s saying something, since Bullock is one of moviedom’s reigning queens of comedy.

“How could this happen to me?” “How can I tell my partner I have genital herpes?” I have too often heard these questions as well as the despair, guilt, remorse, and fear of patients when told they have genital herpes. Now a report in the journal Nature may help to decrease the spread of this […]

New York City offers a plethora of dining options. You can journey the world with cuisines from nearly every ethnicity. There is an atmosphere for every mood as well: from swank to gritty, and from communal to private. Navigating the sea of possibilities could be time-consuming and difficult. The following 11 smartphone apps will help […]

Jazz music reviews of Claire Martin of British jazz, Deborah Latz, Cécile McLorin Salvant who won the Thelonious Monk competition, pianist-composer Craig Taborn and identical twins the Le Boeuf Brothers.

Ever since bioengineered crops entered the food supply, people have been calling for labels to identify them. Today, nearly 50 countries have GMO labeling laws, but efforts here in the United States have gained little ground.

America's 200-year-old patent system is about to be reformed, and the changes will cut out the very heart of innovation in this country, warn many independent inventors, small business owners, and manufacturers, angel investors and venture capitalists.

Vanessa Roulette ended her decade-long drug addiction ten months ago when prostitution became the last option to support her $400 a day habit.