Americans shouldn’t expect Mother Nature to help with their heating bills this winter because it’s going to be nippy, according to the venerable Farmers’ Almanac.

Car steering wheels carry twice as many germs as toilets, new research has revealed.

Take a drive around Munich or Frankfurt, fly into any German airport or cruise the rust belt of the Rhine, and you will see the same thing—contractors in hard hats slapping up new buildings. Germans are building everything from offices to factories. For the first time since the mid-1990s, construction is adding to economic growth, [...]

Roughly half of all sexual impropriety reported in U.S. prisons and jails last year was perpetrated by correctional staff, not inmates. Female staff were the offenders in two-thirds of the prison cases, and two-thirds of the victims of prison staff were male inmates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Anousheh Ansari, a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin, will become the world’s first female space tourist when she blasts off aboard a Russian rocket on September 14, the launch company said on Friday.

For all the differences between the sexes, here’s one that might stir up debate in the teacher’s lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls learn more from women.

The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons has denied any massive increase in the number of teenage girls wanting plastic surgery.  However, New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has called for self-regulation among doctors, saying he is concerned at the growing number of teenagers undergoing cosmetic operations.

When the MTV Music Television Channel debuted on August 1, 1981, many media experts felt it was doomed.

The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank that you can order on Amazon for a meer $20,000.

Milwaukee has been ranked by Forbes.com as "America’s Drunkest City" on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits.