A critic of an online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has identified dozens of biographical articles that appear to contain passages lifted from other sites, prompting its administrators to delete several pending a review.

Kidneys were allegedly removed from sick patients at a Japanese hospital without their permission and then used for transplants, a report says.

Many women eager to be mothers are flooding pharmacies in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, to purchase a device purportedly able to examine sperm quantity and quality, Xinhua reported on its website.

Chinese women spend 8 per cent of their fashion budget on lingerie every year, compared with French women, who spend 20 per cent. But one thing is certain – lingerie is becoming steadily more desirable to Chinese women. (w/pics)

Mice who are cool — temperature-wise, not attitude-wise — live longer, said researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

Pounding the pavement, not pounding down energy drinks, may be a better energy boost, researchers report.

Nearly half of Americans are not sure God exists, according to a poll that also found divisions among the public on whether God is male or female or whether God has a human form and has control over events.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, once thought by some doctors to be a psychological problem or even a excuse for malingerers, is a real disease that affects more than a million Americans, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.

Always putting dents in your garage walls because you park too far forward? Sure, you can use a tennis ball on a string, but that solution has a distinct lack of lasers.

As a kid, did you ever put those little capsules into warm water and watch them grow into dinosaurs? When certain gels are put into a solution, they will not only expand, but also contract again, repeatedly, as if the little dinosaur grew and shrank over and over.

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the victim of a gang rape to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man other than her husband.