French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has asked France’s top court to help the government draft a law banning the full Islamic veil.

The Canadian govt. refuse to reveal what they know about a recent UFO sighting in Newfoundland.

In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep.

Nearly two thirds of children under the age of 10 have DNA damaging mobile phones.

The giant squid lives in the deepest, coldest parts of the sea, growing up to 18 metres in length, weighing up to a tonne.

Technology used by archeologists on the Channel 4 programme Time Team is being used to catch fly-tippers.

Inspiring more than 1,000 movies and having the biggest book sales, Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula may probably owe more of its inspiration to Ireland than to Transylvania.

Naturally erupting dust clouds on Mars are creating structures that look surprisingly like trees near the planet’s north pole. But don’t be fooled – it’s just an optical illusion, NASA scientists say.

A lawsuit claims a dentist’s drill bit was left in a Tampa woman’s head for nearly a year.

A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.

A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursday.

New York City’s transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.

Argentina’s lunatic president thinks eating dead pigs is really sexy. She has not revealed how much the pork industry paid her to make her stupid comments.

Two weeks after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, there are still stories of survival.

For decades, scientists have scanned the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life. Perhaps they should have looked for alien life closer to home.

One of the earliest feathered dinosaurs seems to have been a successful glider.

Iraq invests millions in devices but U.S. Military says they’re only good for “fooling a 4-year-old”.

An Appleton woman who tried to extort money from an upscale restaurant by putting a rat in her lunch has entered no-contest pleas to two criminal charges.

Police Say Caltech Physicist Andrew E. Lange died in an apparent suicide.

This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014.

Rabbits could be milked on a mass scale if a pioneering medical treatment gets the go-ahead.

An eight-year-old boy from the US is apparently suspected of being a terrorist when he goes on holiday because of a name mix-up.

A company which supplies rifle sights to British forces says it will remove the “potentially inflammatory” Biblical references inscribed on its products.

Experts at Slimbridge wetland recently witnessed a rare divorce between a pair of swans.

Never mind a white hell – in the Cairngorms this weekend, it’s husky heaven.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich reacting to the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission released a statement denouncing the Court’s decision.

An extraterrestrial disclosure activist declared that the White House Press Association is blocking mainstream media reporters seeking to have White House press corps members ask President Obama and his press secretary formal questions about policy toward the extraterrestrial presence.

Sonia Flury, 40, was trapped, along with her 20-year-old daughter, in the rubble of her collapsed Port-au-Prince apartment building for five days before being rescued. Her daughter did not survive.

An entomologist and biologist from John Hopkins University hospital has developed a new vaccine against malaria.

A doctor at MUSC says that when athletes die young, the cause is normally due to an enlarged heart.

In the latest bizarre claim to come out of Romania’s presidential race last year, the loser and his wife have claimed he was subject to attacks of negative energy by aides of President Traian Basescu during a crucial debate.

A couple in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Wonder Lake are searching for a 13-year-old house cat who probably saved their lives during a house fire.

In the search for other planetary systems like Earth that are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, scientists have come across some very alien systems indeed. But the latest ones have researchers truly perplexed.

Here are pictures of the January 15, 2010 Annular Solar Eclipse collected from different countries along its “path”.

Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief?

Last year, when NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft discovered a giant ribbon at the edge of the solar system, researchers were mystified. They called it a “shocking result” and puzzled over its origin. Now the mystery may have been solved.

Last January 15th, the Moon passed in front of the sun, producing what is called as an annular solar eclipse visible mostly over Africa, the Middle East, Asia and a small portion of Europe.

In a SPIEGEL interview, German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger discusses her concerns about the threat of a global Google monopoly and the debate over the use of full-body scanners at airports following the recent terror attempt near Detroit.

Belgian doctors give woman a new windpipe after implanting it into her arm.

Gravestones may hold secrets of how the Earth’s atmosphere has changed over the centuries, and scientists are now asking for the public’s help to read these stones.

Egyptian archaeologists have found two large tombs thought to be of workers who helped build the country’s largest pyramid.

Temperatures in normally balmy Florida are so low that an urban myth can be witnessed – freezing iguanas falling from the trees.

An online war of words could become key evidence in an upcoming trial for what has been dubbed the first “Twitter murder”.

Just months after rushing to order enough swine-flu vaccine to protect their citizens, European governments are cancelling orders and trying to sell or give away extra doses as they sit on a glut of the vaccine.

Advanced community design models are emerging to provide some of the greatest opportunities for reducing fossil fuel use, climate-disrupting emissions and traffic congestion, while also offering affordable, high-quality lifestyles.

Meet Catherine Sutton, the initiator of Transition Albany—the effort of a 1.7-square-mile California town (population 16,500+) to transform itself into a self-reliant and resilient community.

The ratio found throughout nature has been discovered at a nano scale.

About eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to researchers.

Employment in the US continues to decline.

Sea Shepherd boat Ady Gil was been rammed and sunk by Japanese whale killers.

Expansive Jupiter enters travels through Pisces from January 17th and passes for a full year (with just a brief peek into Aries in the summer). Pisces is one of Jupiter’s favorite signs (the other is Sagittarius), so 2010 begins on an auspicious tone.

Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole.

The city of Montevideo finally stops being one big sewer.

Israel canceled a delegation of senior military officers to Britain last week after the UK failed to guarantee that they would not be arrested over war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

A lawsuit in 2006 forced the USDA to ban genetically modified alfalfa until an environmental impact study could be done. Having completed a bogus study the corrupt USDA is now poised to reinstate its approval of GM alfalfa but is accepting public comment. Your letters are needed NOW to document the opposition.

Another glaring bits of evidence that the US govt. was behind the attacks of 911 are the plane’s cockpit voice recorders.

There are now 838,000 mortgages in default with people who used to have money and good credit, until they lost their jobs.

Hunger is preventable if we just make the effort.

US media continues to omit the fact that the US soldiers murder Afghan women and children for no reason. Afghans and Pakistanis have every right to strike back against the illegal occupation of their country and the slaughter of their people.

Former Congressman Jim Traficant explains exactly one of the ways that Israel controls the US federal govt.

Canada has approved the construction of a massive project to bring natural gas from the Arctic to fuel the tar sands insanity.

Another study has shown that genetically modified corn is toxic. Why do we continue to allow criminal corporations to poison us and our planet?

Scientific studies are showing that compassion is the key to successful human evolution.

Canada’s Prime Minister has suspended parliament until March 3 in an attempt to maintain power.

If we are to become a viable species we MUST evolve.

Lilian’s newsletter for January.

The Canadian govt. has approved China’s investment into the tar sands project.

The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry into the role of the pharmafia in the great swine flu scam

Future lithium-air batteries could store enough energy to make electrical cars more practical than gasoline powered cars.