A muslim taxi driver is speaking out after being attacked on the job in the Bronx. Sirajul Islam Khan said he picked up a customer in the Bronx at Bedford Park and Webster Avenue around 8:30pm. When they arrived to the destination at 187th street, he pulled out money to make change for the customer’s $9 fare. Khan told Bronx …

The term “antidepressant” is increasingly becoming a misnomer, suggests new study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists from McGill University in Montreal had suspected that antidepressants were being used to treat conditions other than depression, but little research existed on the topic. Jenna Wong, a Ph.D student in the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational …

A breakthrough by Australian scientists could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices. The study has demonstrated a jump in the absorption efficiency of light in a layer of semiconductor that is only a few hundred atoms thick – to almost 99 percent light absorption from the current …

A deposition given by a private investigator alleges Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2011, paid for her defense with sex. According to RadarOnline, a private investigator hired by Baez during the case found out Anthony was trading sexual favors for legal representation. Apparently, the sleazy truth came to light after Baez got Anthony out …

Frances Arnold, an American biochemical engineer and a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena was awarded $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize for her discoveries in “directed evolution” in Helsinki in Finland last Tuesday. With her selection, Frances Arnold is the fourth U.S. Citizen to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize from …

A couple’s final goodbye has been captured on camera by their son, who photographed his parents holding hands as his father’s breathing tube was removed for the last time. The moment was captured in a photo and posted on Reddit.

Apple has added a security star to its firmament with the hire of Jon Callas to its security team. Jon Callas is best known for his work on the pioneering PGP encryption system, including authoring the openPGP standard for IETF and developing PGP’s universal server software. He co-founded the secure-messaging system Silent Circle in 2012.

More than 100,000 bats have descended on the New South Wales holiday town of Batemans Bay with one local politician declaring it a disaster after residents were hit with a wave of dirt and destruction. As a result, residents could not open their windows or go outside their homes. Even studying becomes difficult because of the noise outside, complains Danielle …

Amy Schumer has a message to all of her haters out there. Photos recently emerged showing the comedian in a one-piece bathing suit while on vacation with her boyfriend Ben Hanisch and critics on social media began hounding the Comedy Central star over her figure.

Australia’s Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has said that he is “pulling strings” in Johnny Depp’s head, like film villain Hannibal Lecter. Barnaby Joyce was hitting back after Depp quipped that the ruddy-faced deputy prime minister appeared to be “inbred with a tomato”. The exchange on Wednesday is the latest salvo in the dispute which began a year ago when Mr …

What’s the word for a bear that’s half polar bear and half grizzly? No one’s come up with a definitive name yet (grizzlar?) but a hybrid animal of this type was shot and killed recently by an Inuit hunter in northern Canada. Researchers believe it was both: a polar-grizzly hybrid, something only rarely seen in the wild, but becoming increasingly …