Hendrik Helmer went through excruciating pain after a larger than average cockroach pushed its way into his ear. In Australia, he checked into a medical center after his attempts of getting it out with a vacuum cleaner did not go as planned. “I was hoping it wasn’t a poisonous spider. I was hoping it didn’t bite me,” Helmer told 105.7 …

More than 8,000 turtles being smuggled out of Indonesia were intercepted this week by officials, according to an AFP report. The turtles were found hidden in suitcases thought to be destined for Singapore and China, where the reptiles are sold as exotic pets and occasionally end up in food markets. Friday officials at Jakarta’s main airport discovered nearly 3,000 of …

Everything is smart at CES – watches, glasses, shoes, gloves – so it’s not surprising to find intelligent cars. BMW unveiled the i3, a concept electric vehicle, that communicates with a smartwatch, specifically, the Samsung Galaxy Gear. In addition to displaying the car’s vitals, including battery status and driving range, the smartwatch can be used to navigate.

It has been confirmed by HBO that the fourth season of Game of Thrones will start screening in the US on Sunday, 6 April. The first trailer for which will be shown on the channel this Sunday, 12 January before the premiere of new drama True Detective, and presumably will appear online soon after.

The ‘polar vortex’ hitting the U.S. with insanely-low temperatures has also offered the opportunity for some incredible photos — and now we’ve got some from Niagara Falls. At the falls, where the temperature has been hovering in the low teens, Reuters photographer Aaron Harris took these shots of a partially frozen area of the U.S. side on Wednesday.

A university learning specialist has received death threats and hateful messages after she exposed shockingly low academic levels among revenue athletes the University of North Carolina. Mary Willingham found that between eight and ten per cent of college’s football and basketball players had a reading level of a third grader. By studying eight years of test scores from University of …

Anne Hathaway’s Hawaiian vacation turned scary when she was caught in a riptide on Wednesday. The Oscar winner panicked after becoming stuck in an Oahu current, and reportedly had to be rescued by a nearby surfer who heard her screams for help

Planetary Resources, a company founded by several space entrepreneurs and backed by such high-profile names as James Cameron, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt, plans to begin prospecting for natural resources like water or precious metals in near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) by 2022. Co-founder Peter Diamandis claims that “everything we hold of value on Earth — metals, minerals, energy, real estate, water …

If billionaire Alki David is an honest man, the man who streaked in front of Barack Obama at the president’s rally today in Philadelphia will be paid $1 million for his stunt. The man who performed today’s stunt, which captured the attention of the Drudge Report, is 24-year-old Juan James Rodriguez, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned.

Farrah Abraham has revealed that she regrets baring all for a 2013 sex tape with porn star James Deen, because the film has robbed her of true friends. The ‘Teen Mom 2’ star became an overnight X-rated sensation when ‘Farrah Superstar: Back Door Teen Mom’ was released, but now she admits she would not have made the adult film if …

In addition to the military-grade missile defense system, armor plating and bullet-proof windows featured on Roman Abramovich’s new 557-ft. Eclipse (above), the world’s largest and most expensive privately owned yacht, the Russian oligarch has installed a high-tech anti-photo shield designed to keep the paparazzi at bay. The system relies on lasers to block any digital camera lenses nearby, the London …