This week’s photos come to you directly from the other side of outrageous.  Find out why trampolines are so dangerous, what it feels like to really just "hang out", and the best known strategy for marketing water.

Philosophers and cultural anthropologists have been at it for years: Pressing their noses against the windows of our lives and peering in, looking for the ordinary moments — the daily struggles, the mundane to-do lists — that, taken all together, describe who we are and how we live.

Heather Mills needs to calm down. Outbursts like her infamous rant on GMTV may still be having an adverse effect on her health a week later, according to scientists.

Mobile-using parents want to track their kids by phone.

China has begun training the first of 1,250 teenage girls as hostesses for next year’s Olympics, at what is billed as a charm school — but is more like a boot camp for beauties.

A German policeman has been crowned world champion of the hybrid sport of chessboxing.

Motorized prosthetic arms can help amputees regain some function, but these devices take time to learn to use and are limited in the number of movements they provide.

The world should quickly ban cloning of humans and only allow exceptions for strictly controlled research to help treat diseases such as diabetes or Alzheimer’s, a U.N. study said on Sunday.

A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday.

We had no reason to offer any further proof that Japan is the unquestionable winner when it comes to wacky inventions, but the Melody Road convinces us our judgment is completely accurate.