How a freak diversion of the jet stream is paralysing the globe with freezing conditions
It's snowing in Australia and California yet 'warm' in Greenland
The freezing conditions that have blasted Britain are being blamed on a series of weather patterns that are bringing Arctic temperatures to much of western Europe, California and even...
A still taken from a commercial for Kaplan University shows an empty desk on the ledge of a building. According to Education Department data, 27 percent of students at campuses owned by the for-profit school default on their student loans within three years.
Arlen Castillo had just begun an online associate's degree program at Kaplan...
Authorities say a critically injured motorcyclist from Tempe was traveling 157 mph moments before he hit a pole in the San Tan Valley area.
The motorcyclist whizzed past a Pinal County sheriff's deputy at 2:05 a.m. Sunday while driving north on Gantzel Road near Pecan Creek Drive, according to a Sheriff's Office statement. The posted speed...
Atlanta
For years, MTV has made a living, its detractors would say, peddling rock-star debauchery to wide-eyed teenagers.
But according to a new government study that shows the US teen birthrate falling dramatically in 2009 after a five percent increase from 2005 to 2007, experts say the network may have redeemed itself with its gritty "16 and...
A meteorite (pictured) from an asteroid landed in Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008.
Hot on the heels of finding arsenic-loving life-forms, NASA astronomers have uncovered amino acids—the fundamental foundation for life—in a place where they shouldn't be.
The acids—precursors of proteins—have been unexpectedly found inside fragments of...
