State officials placed six children in protective custody Thursday after following up on a neglected and starved horses complaint near Foster Reservoir.

A housewife who created a phoney MySpace account to send hostile emails to a neighbour's 13-year-old daughter appeared in court yesterday charged with "cyber-bullying" that prompted the girl's suicide.

Ask any woman who has given birth and she'll be happy to wax lyrical about the bad fit between the modern human pelvis and a baby's big head.

The Grand Canyon seems to be fixed in time, but it is hardly permanent, and lately, neither are geologists' estimates for its age, sparking what one scientist calls "the Grand Canyon Wars."

U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Every rock tells a story. And some of those stories are about the history of life.

A daring Coast Guard rescue saw a man, a woman and a cat plucked off a 40-foot boat that ran aground on Shelter Point in heavy seas Friday night.

Having a bad hair day? You're excused. After all, hair has its origins in stuff that used to make just claws.

A New Zealand rape victim drove her rapist to a police station when he fell asleep in his car after assaulting the woman, local media reported on Wednesday.

A nasty fungus seems to have sex while it invades its human host. The fungus causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travelers. The finding could lead to the development of new treatments against these virulent pathogens.