The Iraqi army, backed by the air force, carried out two operations targeting militants in Anbar province, the Baghdad military operations command said Thursday (May 8th).

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says he’s open to reviewing the military’s ban on transgender service members. In an interview with ABC News, Hagel said while the issue is more complicated than allowing gays in the military because it requires medical support, the policies “continually should be reviewed.”

Five people were killed Sunday, May 11, in Hesperia when a van hit a Honda that was stopped at a stop sign, overturned and came to a rest upside-down on top of the Honda. The crash was reported at 6:55 a.m. at Main Street and Balsam Avenue. The van was headed east on Main Street when, for an unknown reason, …

On Saturday, May 10, 2014, at 2 p.m. local time (10 p.m. Friday EDT), the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus was confirmed lost at 9,990 meters (6.2 miles) depth in the Kermadec Trench northeast of New Zealand. The unmanned vehicle was working as part of a mission to explore the ocean’s hadal region from 6,000 to nearly 11,000 meters deep. …

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued its first Spare the Air alert of 2014, stating that the combination of high heat and low wind in Monday’s forecast is a recipe for unhealthy air. In such weather conditions, motor vehicle exhaust accumulates, creating unhealthy levels of ozone pollution. The Air District asks commuters to avoid driving and use …

On Tuesday, a humpback whale was rescued after it became entangled in crab pot gear off the Washington coast. Staff from Cascadia Research worked with the Coast Guard and National Marine Fisheries Service to free the whale, which was trapped near Grays Harbor.

On Monday, May 5, wife and mother Jenna Hinman from upstate New York died at the age of just 26 years old. She had been diagnosed with a rare placental cancer but was still able to give birth to her twin girls, Kinleigh and Azlynn on March 3. The baby girls were delivered nine weeks early by an emergency C-section …

If you liked Inception, you’re going to love this. People have been given the ability to control their dreams after a quick zap to their head while they sleep. Lucid dreaming is an intriguing state of sleep in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming. As a result, they gain some element of control over what happens in …

An Amnesty International report claims that Nigerian security forces had warning of an imminent attack four hours before Boko Haram abducted 300 schoolgirls from their school in Chibok in rural Nigeria, but failed to send reinforcements or otherwise act to prevent the abduction.

A Texas police officer who shot and killed a 93-year-old woman last week has been fired.

Samsung chairman Lee Kun Hee has been reported to be in stable condition after suffering a heart attack in the early hours of this morning, according to reports. The 72-year old was rushed to hospital this morning where he underwent surgery for an acute myocardial infarction. He was resuscitated and stabilised at Soonchunhyang University Hospital, according to a statement released …