Thousands of slimy, reeking sardines gurgled to the surface of an increasingly murky Southern California marina on Thursday as crews kept scooping and vacuuming tons of fish that perished in a huge, unexplained die-off.
School bullying is not a rite of passage for youth, Obama said on Thursday as part of an initiative to change the way Americans perceive the dangerous behavior.
Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday admitted that he holds a British nationality but has never taken any benefit of being a citizen of the UK.
An elderly Swiss woman was trampled to death and four other tourists were injured when elephants they were riding fought with each other in southern Thailand.
The wife of a Vietnamese journalist has been arrested for allegedly murdering her husband by setting him on fire as he slept.
The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - and wouldn't mind having more.
George Washington's name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation's history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities _ and people.
New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) officers have had to kill 48 pilot whales that were among a pod of 120 whales beached in a remote part of New Zealand's Stewart Island on Sunday.
A screwdriver has been identified as the cause of trouble that halted the operation of a nuclear power plant in the southern part of South Korea, according to local reports on Thursday.
Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan.
A mother in Myanmar says her baby girl's 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage - her grip may even be stronger than normal - and now she's grasping for a Guinness record.
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