It has chimed through freezing winters, fierce storms and World War II bombing raids. But old age will silence Big Ben’s bongs — at least temporarily.

Scientists have discovered the universe’s largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,400 light-years away.

It may sound like a fantastic ice cream flavor, but a quadruple galactic crunch is really a rare cosmic event recently spotted by astronomers: Four galaxies made of old stars in the process of merging into one mega-galaxy.

Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk has now officially become the world’s tallest man standing at a towering 8ft 5ins in tall.

Afraid to commit? You’re not alone. Tattoos are painful to receive and remove and, barring the later, last a lifetime. But a new technique makes skin art durable and easily removable.  Although it can’t take away the pain, it can ease the regret.  "I was the first recipient of a Freedom-2 tattoo. I wore it [...]

Today, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a lawsuit against the American Red Cross and four of its licensing partners for "unlawful conduct" related to the nonprofit’s use of the Red Cross emblem.

The Piss-Screen – a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee.

Mystery blobs found in Belle River aren’t stinging jellyfish after all, but tiny, harmless invertebrates that cluster together to form a hunk of goo as big as a basketball.

A Chinese man has built a house out of two cement pipes. Xin Yucai, 50, of Shenyang city, even turned down the chance to move into his daughter’s apartment he enjoyed living in his unusual home so much.

An author leafing through a newspaper comes across tantalising details of a murder so grisly that he becomes obsessed, and imagines the events into a novel. Or a murderer, so self-satisfied with the brilliance of his perfect crime, pens an account to pass off as fiction and enshrine it in literary history.

In a fast changing world, driven by technology, today’s trend can become obsolete the very next day. But you can make that a profitable business opportunity by understanding the future by spotting the major cultural, demographic, societal, and economic shifts early and translating them into viable business opportunities, says the renowned futurist Thomas J Frey. [...]