It was a ginormous year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster.

Condoms of all shapes and sizes were on display at a Beijing fashion show on Wednesday featuring dresses, hats and even lollipops made of the said item.

A bird that caught fire after being electrocuted at a substation is suspected of igniting a 2 acre wildfire Monday, officials said.

A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday.

Latest research by scientists in Britain indicates that besides causing cancer, heart attacks and strokes, smoking also affects muscles.

Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to do just that.

A new study in China has found that Western diet increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal Asian women.

It was a ginormous year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster. Along with embracing the adjective that combines "gigantic" and "enormous," the dictionary publishers also got into Bollywood, sudoku and speed dating.

U.S. firm Kmart Wednesday said it was expanding its generic drug program to include nearly 70 additional medications.

When Peng Shulin had his body cut in two by a lorry in 1995, it was little short of a medical miracle that he lived. He survived against all the odds and now he has astounded doctors by learning to walk again.