Children as young as nine will be allowed to take drugs to block puberty, which doctors say provides a crucial delay to allow them to decide whether to undergo gender reassignment later. The treatment, which suspends the hormonal changes that cause puberty, will be offered by one NHS trust to children with gender identity disorder (GID), where a person is …

An injured sea turtle whose two left flippers had to be amputated is swimming again with the help of a new prosthetic fin designed like a fighter jet’s wings. Called “Hofesh” after the Hebrew word for “freedom,” the turtle has two stumps after he was found badly injured. In 2009, the green sea turtle was brought in by a fishing …

A new report shows that glaciers near Alaska are shrinking rapidly, and climate change is causing this substantial melt. The loss of the tens of thousands of glaciers in Alaska and neighbouring British Columbia, Canada alone is deeply worrying, according to scientists. Not only is this glacial melt accelerating, but it may spell a host of problems for humans, including …

At least 25 people have been arrested in Turkey following the May 13 mining disaster in Soma that killed 301 people. Three people had been charged with manslaughter. Turkey’s Dogan news agency reported among those arrested on Sunday were the general manager Ramazan Dogru and the mine’s operations manager Akin Celik.

“Saturday Night Live” opened its season finale with a sketch about the now-infamous elevator fight between Jay Z and Solange Knowles … as Beyonce just watched from the sidelines.

The scene unfolded when Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar fouled a pitch to third base coach Luis Rivera during the fourth inning. Rivera then flipped it to the boy. Without missing a beat, he turned and gave the girl sitting behind him a ball he was holding in his right hand. He never took the foul ball out of his …

The Obama administration is joining forces with Texas A&M University in the fight against “coffee rust” – a fungus threatening to devastate the Latin American coffee crop. The orange-colored fungus has already caused more than $1 billion in damage. It is especially dangerous to Arabica beans – used to brew gourmet coffees that are much in demand in U.S. coffee …

Dogs may help in the fight against prostate cancer because of their unique abilities to detect it. A study presented at the American Urological Association reveals that dogs can find the cancer through smell, and they have a high accuracy rating. The researchers believe the animals can be trained to quickly identify the cancer in men.

Kendra Wilkinson finally has a baby girl! On May 16, the 28-year-old beauty and her husband Hank Baskett welcomed their first daughter.

A team of scientists from the Imperial College of London has discovered a technique to turn light into matter, bringing closer to reality a task that was set on paper 80 years ago. According to the original theory, devised by Gregory Breit and John Archibald Wheeler in 1934, it is theoretically possible to turn light into matter by smashing two …

The Minnesota Department of Health warns that the winter we just endured, with its early start and deep snowfall, created ideal conditions for the proliferation of disease-carrying deer and wood ticks.