A new study finds ultraviolet lamps used in nail salons to harden and dry polish do not pose a risk for skin cancer. Researchers tested lights from 16 different salons with a variety of bulb types and wattage. They found higher wattage lights did emit more UVA radiation, but that it would take many exposures to pose any danger and …

The Chicago City Council has voted 36-10 to ban plastic bags in most stores next year. The ban, which has the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, goes into effect for Chicago’s large retailers in August 2015 and one year later for shops smaller than 10,000 square feet. Family-owned stores and restaurants will not be affected. All major stores will have …

Three people were killed when an explosion hit a railway station in the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, state media reported. Reports say 79 people have been injured in the blast at Urumqi’s southern railway station on Wednesday. Xinhua news agency quoted police saying “knife-wielding mobs slashed people” at an exit of the station and set off a bomb.

Following discovery of a “zero-day bug” that can corrupt memory in the Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft continues to work on a fix. The zero-day vulnerability is a remote-code execution flaw that affects how Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 access an object in memory that has been deleted or not properly assigned.

The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a one-month prison sentence given to a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student.

While surgical procedures to treat kidney stones are fairly common these days, about one-in-seven results in complications that require additional, potentially expensive, care, according to a new study in the journal Surgery. The study revealed that the average cost of these complications, in the form of emergency care, is about $30,000.

Wal-Mart started to offer car insurance in 8 states Wednesday morning. The company is offering the insurance inside some Walmart stores, and online through the Walmart website. The company plans to eventually offer insurance through the entire country, according to Joshua Kazam, Founder of AutoInsurance.com.

After months of rumors that Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling were going to breakup, a new report claims that the two could be engaged and planning a wedding. Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard about Ryan proposing, as evidenced by the video below.

A Houston father who was drunk while giving his 1-year-old son a bath fell asleep and caused his little boy to drown, according to Harris County Sheriff’s deputies. Enrique Alberto Machado, 36, appeared in probable cause court on Tuesday after he was charged with felony murder – injury to a child in the death of his 13-month-old son Carlos.

The debate over keeping whales and dolphins in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium could be put to a public vote this fall if one councillor gets her way, but it’s not clear if the Park Board would endorse the outcome.

Camels have been implicated in a Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome known as MERS, a viral infection that has caused outbreaks in humans in that part of the world, a new study suggests. As of April 23, 345 laboratory-confirmed cases, including 107 deaths, have been linked to the coronavirus and reported to public health authorities worldwide, according to the European Centre for …