A western Pennsylvania couple, accused of luring their 5-year-old son into the trunk of their car with candy to resolve his fear of the dark, was granted probation this...

An Alabama man who went in to a hospital last month for a circumcision awoke after surgery to find his penis had been amputated, his lawyer said last week.

In a bar in trendy east London, dozens of people mill about, sniffing from plastic bags.

Don’t tell the folks over at avant-garde eateries Noma and Geranium, but for many visitors to Denmark’s capital, the biggest culinary sensation isn’t Nordic fusion.

It’s an old fortress on a tiny island, surrounded by pine trees and the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan as tourism bosses wake up to the demand from Muslim travelers.

Summertime demands very little from 15-year-old Amir Maktabi: He says his routine consists largely of “sleeping a lot, late nights, waking up late and going out.”

Students from a variety of continents experience life in Lebanon for six weeks and reflect on the gulf between depictions of the country and the reality.

At first fleeting glance, the works of local artist Saint Hoax recall the halcyon days of childhood. Incorporating Disney characters in a slew of recent works, however,...

Experimentation with human growth hormone by America’s teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people looked to drugs to boost their athletic...

A few weeks before their prom king’s death, students at an Ohio high school had attended an assembly on narcotics that warned about the dangers of heroin and...

It has been a circus prop, a toy and a 1950s fad, and now the hula hoop is making a comeback as a workout tool that fitness experts say provides an effective cardio and...

Back in 2012, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar storm that just missed the Earth but was big enough to “knock modern civilization back to the 18th century,” NASA...

Facebook and most other social networks are built on the premise that just about everything should be shared – except the money those posts produce.

Scientists in western Canada have discovered fossilized footprints of three tyrannosaurs that suggest these fearsome predators may have hunted in packs.