Nintendo's Wii game system's popularity is extending beyond the teen gaming set, and now is quickly becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from broken bones, strokes, surgery and even combat injuries. The usual stretching and lifting
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According to China's media reports, the nation is discovering 1,600 new cases of leprosy each year and greater efforts are needed to completely eradicate the disfiguring disease. Although China made great progress against the disease in recent decades, t
Boy, it seems like the Chinese will eat just about anything that walks and breathes. Custom officers in Thailand recently rescued 100 pangolins which were smuggled and headed to China where they were destined for the cooking pot. Thai officers intercepted three pick-up trucks of pangolins, which were to be smuggled across Laos to southwest China.
Kenny George, a 22-year-old college basketball star in the U.S. doesn't own a driver's license. But it's not because he's scared of driving on a freeway or doesn't know how to parallel park. Standing extremely tall at 7-foot-7 and weighing 360 pounds
The New York Philharmonic is preparing to use classical music as a tool of diplomacy. The orchestra is planning a tour in North Korea, hoping to improve relations between the two hostile nations. Zarin Mehta leads one of America's most prestigious orches
Throughout the ages lovers have asked "Why doesn't he love me?" and "Can I make her love me?" It seems like a variety of different chemical processes and external stimuli have to click in the right complex and right sequence for someone to fall in
A new book says Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret, journalist Seth Shulman argues Bell got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, a
A young man in Canada recently was shocked when he received a cell phone bill with numbers that were completely out of this world. So, how much was he charged? Believe it or not the bill said he was obligated to pay 85,000 Canadian dollars for surfing the
There is a man who wants to fly. The way he wants to fly isn't the way the Wright brothers wanted to fly, but the way we do in our dreams. Believe it or not, a man named Jeb Corliss wants to jump from an airplane and land without using a parachute. It su
American tennis legend John McEnroe recently expressed his concern that organized crime, such as the Russian mafia, could be infiltrating the game of tennis. The former world number one, McEnroe believed mafia threats to tennis pros or their families coul
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