The top crime neighborhood in the world isn’t in Sao Paulo or Lagos. It’s not the Bronx in New York, or even Wedding in Berlin. It’s the small city ruled by Pope Benedict XVI, which apparently sees more criminal cases per capita than any other part of the world.

Hopping on one leg 50 times a day can help women beat bone-wasting condition osteoporosis, a study found.

What could make a better clothing material than toilet paper? It’s cheap, easy to work with, and fits other needs in a pinch.

Nearly nine out of ten Britons wake up in a bad mood, but a sunny day and breakfast in bed can lift the blues, a new survey shows.

In the caverns deep in the mountain in Anshun of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, live nearly a hundred villagers. People of the Tajing village, all from the Miao minorrity group, have lived there for centuries.

It ranks among the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos. Physicists call it the Fermi paradox after the Italian Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, who, in 1950, pointed out the glaring conflict between predictions that life was elsewhere in the universe – and the conspicuous lack of aliens who have come to visit. Now a Danish [...]

Gone are the Herman Miller Aeron desk chairs and the other technocrat excesses of the late 1990s when dot-coms burned through money and hype, throwing lavish launch parties, staffing up quickly and spending millions on Super Bowl ads. Emerging in their stead is a post-crash generation of stingy startups using ingenuity to minimize the cost [...]

According to Silverpop’s new "How Top Retailers Use Transactional Emails" report, many online companies are failing to exploit the full potential of transactional e-mail marketing — and thereby leaving money on the table.

Standing outside the double doors to the Hugh M. Hefner Sky Villa, I considered the choices: On one hand, I could stay in this room for one night. Or I could buy a BMW Z4 Roadster.

Now I know there are many out there who will think I have lost it when I write that a key, new must-have for men this coming fall will be a pair of leggings to be worn outside, not just in, the house, but that was the big message at the debut Marni men’s runway [...]

Scientists say they have found the part of the brain that predicts whether a person will be selfish or an altruist.