Life could soon be as good as it gets! A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the...

Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.

Security officials were forced to cut short the Olympic torch relay in Paris after heavy anti-Chinese protests along the route. Police extinguished the torch three times in a bid to evade protesters.

A technician at a French Polynesian television station has been suspended from work after accidentally screening a porn movie he thought he was watching alone. The incident on March 3 sparked about a dozen angry calls to the Tahiti Nui television...