Using ancient clues culled from religious records, an Israeli geologist claims the Middle East is long overdue for a devastating earthquake. Such a quake could destroy holy sites and even impact on world peace.

A small biotech company has developed the ultimate device for detecting bombs. It is a shoe-sized box containing three live honeybees specially trained to smell out explosives, TNT, gunpowder and chemical weapons.

A birthday celebration in the lunchroom of an East Palmdale high school turned into mayhem when one of the celebrants accidentally dropped a piece of birthday cake. The slipup earned the girl a broken wrist.

Her sex life was breaching the peace and disrupting the sleep of her neighbors. So just a few short months after moving into her Nuremberg apartment, a woman was evicted on the basis of being a noisy tenant.

The historic market town of Daventry, England, is testing out driverless vehicles equipped with laser-scanner "eyes." The "brains" and controller of these vehicles are onboard "black box" computers linked to the laser eyes.

Archaeologists believe they have found the main pyramid of the ruins of an ancient Aztec city. In June, walls thought to be part of the main pyramid were unearthed by construction workers in a neighborhood of Iztapalapa.

For the residents of Uniontown, Kentucky, burying a dog in a cemetery for people was disrespectful enough. But when a fellow citizen erected a tombstone with the dog's name on it, she went way too far.

A Japanese furniture company has gone hi-tech with furniture that glows and changes hues according to your current mood. It even changes color to tell you if you are overweight.

When a woman in the UK had a change of mind about donating some old clothes, it almost cost her her life. The incident took place in the car park of an Asda store in Sittingbourne, Kent.

An Australian computer scientist believes we will soon be able to search for and download music off the internet simply by singing to our computers. You will not even need to recall the song title you are looking for.

Eighteen-year-old Carys Copestake needed to cover the cost of her university tuition fees. Her solution was to advertise her virginity for sale on a popular website for prostitutes.

When Mary Stadelbacher taught her three trained service dogs (Major, Sammy and Kayne) how to take brush to canvas, little did she realize they would become the local sensations in the art world.

One-year-old Eclyse is the product of the mating of a horse and a zebra. Her unique markings demonstrate she has inherited genes from both her parents as she looks like a zebra whose stripes have been partially covered up with white paint.

In the first case of its kind in Britain, a businessman is suing Google for the publication of material on the internet that is malicious, inaccurate or damaging. The thrust of the legal action is to make search engines accountable for internet content.

A British girl has astounded both her parents and experts by achieving a score of 152 on an IQ test. Such a score places her in the top 2% of the population and alongside the likes of Stephen Hawking

With a rapidly aging population, Japan soon faces a shortage in its labor force. Tech companies such as Kawada Industries, though, are gearing to churn out humanoids as replacement workers.

And God said 'Let There Be Light' according to the Bible's Book of Genesis. Ever since, humans have sought one form of "artificial" light or another to illumine the dark. At first there was fire, then candles and oil and kerosene lamps.

It was meant to be a promotional email. Only those customers who had previously made purchases at Amazon's "Sex & Sensuality" store in the UK were to receive it.

Researchers in the UK are developing a room-sized printing machine that will make the way we construct buildings today look like something from the Stone Age.

For 20 years Dennis Hope has successfully exercised a loophole in the Outer Space Treaty to the tune of $9 million.