America’s top doc told the Herald yesterday that Santa Claus should slim down, in the latest blow struck in a global politically correct crusade against the jolly fat man.

States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show.

The head of the neurosurgery department at Rhode Island Hospital has stepped aside while officials investigate three incidents in which surgeons operated on the wrong side of a patient’s head.

The designers at New Zealand’s Unit Seven created this New Brainland Map that visualizes and, er, maps out various neural regions. They used a reference photo of a human brain to model the 3D terrain.

Have you ever wanted to get inside another marketer’s head? That is exactly what researchers from Anderson Analytics set out to do. At a moment when the marketing environment may more difficult than at any time in history, they surveyed over 600 members of the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) to identify the “Top Marketing […]

A pearly white robot that looks a little like ET boosted a man out of bed, chatted and helped prepare his breakfast with its deft hands in Tokyo on Tuesday, in a further sign robots are becoming more like their human inventors.

Complicated braiding, finger exercise, dessert muffins, and a world record top the photos this week.  Amazing stuff. Simply amazing photos.

Scientists believe they have unlocked the secret of younger-looking skin in a development which raises the prospect of an elixir of youth.

Vancouver is hosting the Winter Games in 2010. The Olympic mascots will be Sumi the Thunderbird, Quatchi the Sasquatch, and Miga the Sea Bear, all mythical North American creatures.

Santa is being forced to belt up - in case he falls off his sleigh whizzing through towns at a top speed of 5 mph (8 km/h).

A newspaper editor, whose family has dealt with deadly drunk driving accidents, is offering a coffin to the first person who dies this holiday season from a drunk driving accident.

While past research has linked early sexual activity to health problems, a new study suggests that waiting too long to start having sex carries risks of its own.

Allan Redford, 57, claims bosses at Shopmobility in Centre West told him he had been banned for life after he was caught on CCTV exceeding the speed limit on one of their electric scooters.

First came SatNav, the satellite system that helps guide even the most hapless drivers home - now the "SatLav" has been unveiled, to guide shoppers to the nearest toilet.

Somewhere on the planet today someone will skip over pages of fine print they will later regret not reading - and thumb their nose at the risk of a phone exploding - in order to sign a mobile services contract that will bring the worldwide number of such accounts to 3.3 billion, a figure roughly […]

There is no shortage of advice on how to slim down and shape up. Of course, a lot of it – whether from a book, the Internet or even some trainers – is just plain bunk.

You might be surprised.

The MiShare is a matchbox-sized $100 Linux appliance that interfaces between two iPods and allows you to transfer files back and forth between them.

A Russian woman gave birth by the light of dozens of mobile phones after a power cut plunged a town into darkness.

Two years ago, 1-year-old Deante Reid died in his parents’ care - and, to avoid funeral costs, his parents tried to cremate him in a barbecue grill.

Scientists have discovered the first fossilized evidence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

How much would you pay for an exceptional brew? $10 a six-pack? $20 a six-pack? How about $5 an ounce?

Here’s something gruesome - a book made from human skin is being auctioned off this Sunday. You can even make out a ghostly image of a face on the cover.

ORLAND PARK, Ill., Nov. 27 (UPI) -Police in Orland Park, Ill., said a woman apparently locked her purse inside a former employer’s office after allegedly breaking into the room.

A TIRED husband almost died after his mouth got stuck wide open when he was yawning.