This year's finalists for the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award reflect two of global culture's most dynamic engines; the environment and an aging population. The final Four are different enough to make picking a winner a tough call.

Some Muslim young women in Europe do a plastic surgery to regain virginity in order to get married. They say they do it for cultural reasons and not for religious purposes.

What were Einstein’s beliefs about God and religion? With the public appearance of a letter he wrote the year before his death, the matter would seem to be settled, though probably not to everyone's satisfaction.

The death toll is nearing 12,000 and climbing after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocked China yesterday. Citizen journalists are now being credited with breaking the news of the quake and strict Chinese laws on citizen reporting seem to be easing.

If you thought all those traffic fumes were making you sick, they are. Studies have shown that Deep Vein Thrombosis is one of the results of exposure. One of the problems is the creation of blood clots.

Microsoft launches the most breathtaking view of our universe that the majority of our human eyes will ever see. Navigate through the universe via Microsoft's new amazing application. A Must See.

Straight from the you-can’t-be-serious files: A young man was recently arrested for allegedly "assaulting" a police officer with M&M's. Let's hope the officer has a full and speedy recovery.

Here's a swift slap on the peepee for Smilin' Stevie Harper &The Corruptibles. From the UN, no less. Seems the guys at the controls have been too busy pointing thumbs at other folk to keep up with Canada's CO2 monitoring responsibilities.

First, you make an engine about a nanometer or so across, then you strengthen it with carbon nanotubes, then you crank it up with rocket fuel. Scientists in Arizona have created a powerful little nanomotor which has some big potential applications.

An immigrant worker from El Salvador, Central America was said to have committed suicide after killing his wife and three young children on Friday. Police found the bodies of all five on Saturday at a rural Houston, Texas home.

Michigan Police issued a $1 parking ticket on September 1, 1976, it was left uncollected and lost in the records. But finally they received the payment from the owner.

In spite of increasing numbers of news reports about deaths from tasering, the weapons are being put into the hands of more and more untrained law officers, and the industry has continued to insist that the devices aren’t dangerous.

Yesterday was the official "International Migratory Bird Day". We went looking for birds in the zoo of Toronto. Not in the cages, no, that would be too easy, wouldn't it?

A 22-year-old Jordanian man shot his 20-year-old pregnant married sister three times in the head to 'cleanse his family's honor'. Meanwhile, the OIC has started the 'Islamophobia Observatory' Project to eliminate fears about Islam. Good luck with that.

If there’s ever been an inflexible social taboo in human thinking, it’s “madness”. Now, Mad Pride Marches are happening around the world. Tens of millions of people are affected by mental illness. Recognition is overdue by any honest standard.

The good taste award goes to… Burma’s generals! Yep, those funloving generals are handing out food with their names on it. It’s international aid food, too. Gutsy stuff. They might have worn out their tongues on the labels, as well as the rhetoric.

A computer algorithm has made it possible to watch the aerial ballet over the US as a real time sim. Complete with musical soundtrack, what looks like a disorganized spider web suddenly illuminates the entire US.

Social networks are virtual gold mines of personal information. Sites like Facebook know more about you than your family probably does. They're now letting members take information with them outside of the network, to other places on the Web.

Every day, journalists report on medical claims made by supposed “experts.” But we shouldn’t take their advice at face value, as more evidence points to how health care news fails to properly inform the public.

The United Nations today appealed for $187 million to help provide humanitarian relief to some 1.5 million people severely affected by the recent cyclone in Myanmar for the next six months.