There's been no letup in the cases of self-immolations in Tibetan areas of China. A woman taxi driver and mother of two died after setting herself on fire in western China's Qinghai province on Saturday, rights groups said in statements, adding that this was the eighth self-immolation case in thelast two weeks.The spurt in cases of protest suicides...

How the news of the circumstances of Savita Halappanavar’s death in an Irish hospital spread across the globe was unprecedented in its speed and volume. Online and off, coverage of her story was relentless, as international outlets wrote reports and social media disseminated information. Within hours, news of Savita Halappanavar’s death went global.It...

In a new study, researchers from two disparate fields have discovered the teeth of 65-million-year-old dinosaurs With the help of University of Florida mechanical engineering professor  and UF postdoctoral researcher Brandon Krick, Florida State University paleobiologist Gregory Erickson determined the teeth of hadrosaurs — n herbivore...

Cambodia's former king Norodom Sihanouk, once an absolute ruler who freed Cambodia from colonialism before becoming a tragic pawn through decades of turmoil, died on Monday in a Beijing hospital. He was 89. A pre-eminent figure in Cambodia's history for seven decades, Sihanouk however will also be remembered as a puppet kept by the Khmer...