A massive police operation has cracked down on May Day protests in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Riot officers have blocked off the city’s iconic Taksim Square and have deployed tear gas and water cannon against crowds of demonstrators. Defying a ban on May Day protests, hundreds of protesters clashed with police in the Besiktas neighborhood of Istanbul. Some activists …

Police have determined that two men who were fatally shot in the city’s east end last month opened fire on one another following a chance encounter on a sidewalk. According to police, Jonathan Stefan Khan, 20, and Shawn Chestnut-Reddick, 22, bumped into each other in front of a vacant storefront on Danforth Avenue east of Woodbine Avenue on the night …

A whale that washed up on shore in Newfoundland is in danger of exploding, according to experts in Trout River, Canada. The town clerk, Emily Butler, told Canadian news service NTV that the blue whale carcass that washed up on the town’s boardwalk last week is decaying and filled with methane gas, which could lead the whale to explode.

Obese adults who display no signs of CVD appear to have a significantly higher prevalence of coronary artery calcification compared with normal-weight adults. “The risk of cardiovascular disease among obese individuals without obesity related metabolic abnormalities … is controversial,” researchers wrote in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Cambodian police Thursday discovered the body of 58-year-old Canadian journalist and author Dave Walker who has been missing since Feb 14 in Siem Reap city, national police spokesman Kirt Chantharith confirmed. Walker’s family in Canada issued a statement saying, “A pathologist is being brought in to confirm forensics and a medical autopsy will be arranged to attempt to determine the …

A woman is traveling hundreds of miles to help a child she’s never met after hearing about her story on Facebook. Two-year-old Arianna Moore has been on kidney dialysis since shortly after she was born in Minnesota. After months of waiting for a donor her mother created a Facebook page appealing for help.

Chrissy Teigen gets squeaky clean and talks a little dirty in the June 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan. The 28-year-old Sports Illustrated swimsuit model stripped for a bubbly bathtub photo in the women’s magazine and opened up about the sexy way she first landed husband John Legend.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California forced the mandatory evacuation Wednesday of more than 1,100 homes near Rancho Cucamonga, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. The fire began in the San Bernardino National Forest at about 8 a.m. local time, and it has grown to more than 650 acres, according to Cal Fire.

Doctors have long warned against prolonged use of antibiotics, saying that bacteria can build resistance to drugs, eventually rendering them ineffective. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that antibiotic-resistant bacteria now exist in many parts of the world. Some diseases that once could easily be cured by antibiotics have now become deadly.

Imperial College is on a roll. After recently unveiling the edible water bottle, researchers at the London institution announced that they might be able to create a pill with the power to switch off hunger. Their theory is based around the molecule acetate, which essentially tells the body when it’s time to stop eating.

Scientists have for the first time measured the rotation of a planet in another solar system — a juvenile, gassy giant spinning at a breakneck 90,000 kilometers per hour, they reported on Wednesday. Orbiting a star about 63 light years from Earth, Beta Pictoris b is more than 16 times larger and 3,000 times more massive than our planet, but …