Huge Elephant Bird Egg Gets $101,813 at UK Auction
Posted: 9:43 AM A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction.
Posted: 9:43 AM A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction.
Updated: 12:25 PM Since directing "Garden State," Zach Braff has continually prepared music in an iTunes playlist titled, "For Next Movie." Nine years and hundreds of saved songs later, Braff hopes he's finally making his follow-up to "Garden State" — if his fans can help.
Posted: 9:33 AM Five people have been killed an one injured in a shooting overnight in Manchester, Ill., KSDK-TV reports.
Posted: 9:32 AM When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry — reeling from the effects of online piracy — was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out.
Posted: 9:28 AM An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete.
Updated: 12:25 PM People magazine has named Gwyneth Paltrow as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2013.
Posted: 9:13 AM Law enforcement officials searched the home of a second Mississippi man in connection to ricin-laced letters sent to the president and a U.S. senator after charges were dropped without explanation against a man arrested in the case last week.
Posted: 9:03 AM The area near the Boston Marathon finish line is reopening to the general public.
Updated: 10:48 AM Thousands of students at the University of California - Santa Cruz gather on campus on April 20 every year to celebrate '4-20' by lighting up marijuana at 4.20pm.
Updated: 11:42 AM The eighth-graders' annual dinner dance here has become a lesson in civil liberties and gender studies after a middle school principal banned strapless dresses.
Posted: 11:00 AM German customs authorities say Justin Bieber's monkey is going nowhere despite a request of the animal shelter where it's living that it go to a zoo.
Posted: 11:01 AM The Central Texas Miniature Horse Club will present the Festival of the Mini’s, Friday, April 26 through Saturday, April 27, at the Brazos County Expo.
Posted: 10:50 AM Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to embrace American lives after emigrating from Russia - joining a boxing club, winning a scholarship and even seeking U.S. citizenship. But their uncle last week angrily called them "losers" who failed to feel settled even after a decade of living in the United States.
Posted: 10:40 AM The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn launched a campaign this month, proclaiming Jesus Christ to be “The Original Hipster.”
Posted: 10:33 AM Katherine Russell was a talented artist, a good student who grew up Christian, the daughter of a suburban doctor.
Posted: 10:28 AM Reese Witherspoon's professional image is so squeaky clean that she got laughs on a late-night show earlier this year for pretending to buy bottles of cognac and tequila.
Updated: 10:24 AM More parents need to talk with their teens about the dangers of abusing Ritalin, Adderall and other prescription drugs, suggests a new study that finds discouraging trends on kids and drug use.
Posted: 9:17 AM A weekend news anchorman for a North Dakota television station says he was fired after he opened his first-ever broadcast with obscenities.
Posted: 9:09 AM NEW YORK - PSY continues to set records on YouTube.
Posted: 9:20 AM A former Dallas middle school teacher has been charged with sexual assault after a 14-year-old girl accused him of having sex with her.
Updated: 5:18 PM With finals coming up, I’ve been stressed out and I wanted to do a project this week that would help me feel better. What better way to do that than ripping magazine pages to shreds? This was the basis of my idea. I also love elephants so I decided that a project that combines these two things would be the best choice.
Updated: 5:22 PM Have you ever watched a film that you had never heard of, with only half-hearted expectations to find that it may be one of the best films you’ve ever seen?
Posted: 4:35 PM A central Kansas woman likely won't remember her first circus for the clowns or performances — it'll be the tiger in the bathroom.
Posted: 4:25 PM A Reuters deputy social media editor accused of conspiring with hackers to deface a Los Angeles Times story said Monday he had been fired.