Global warming is reshaping the Arctic so fast that a quarter of the world’s polar bear population is likely to be in serious trouble by the end of the century.

It looks like Prince has had enough of social media. Prince has deleted his Facebook and Twitter accounts and pulled all of his music from YouTube. The Prince Vevo account now only has three clips: the “Breakfast Can Wait” video, a behind-the-scenes piece on “Breakfast Can Wait,” and a short interview.

In the latest marketing stunt aimed at pulling on people’s heartstrings in advance of the holiday season, Dutch airline KLM brought some flyers to tears recently by enlisting their loved ones to write personal messages that were then left on the headrests.

Branson Riley Carlisle, 5, died Sunday at a hospital in Albertville after being bitten by a brown recluse spider.

Passengers Push Plane In Siberia In Freezing Temperatures, at least 70 oil workers in Siberia are now being investigated by Russian authorities after a video posted on YouTube showed them flexing muscle and pushing a Siberian airliner after its chassis got frozen and stuck in biting minus 52 degrees Celsius temperatures.

Just before a black bear attacked and killed him, New Jersey resident Darsh Patel snapped images of the animal with his cell phone. Police in West Milford have released five photos taken by 22-year-old Darsh Patel before he was killed by the 300-pound black bear while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve, 45 miles northwest of New York.

Bernie Tiede, the inspiration for Richard Linklater’s film Bernie, has won his appeal — and he may be set free from prison for good. The former Panola County resident was found guilty in the 1997 murder case of Marjorie Nugent, 81, back in February 1999 and later sentenced to life in prison. However, in May of this year, Tiede was …

They are missing arms and legs, have deformed eyes and hearts and endure constant pain, lifelong symptoms of a monstrous “miracle drug.” Thalidomiders have learned to live with those disabilities. What they cannot endure is more injustice: the poisonous silence in response to their pleas for help.

Lebanese actress and singer Sabah, an icon from the Arab world’s golden age of cinema, died in Beirut on Wednesday at the age of 87. The singer’s family confirmed the news in a Facebook post, reported Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper.

On Monday, health experts argues that there is no need to administer screenings for Vitamin D levels as they are not proven to provide any benefit; nor did it prove to be harmful without them.

A 1,700-year-old cemetery has been excavated along the route of the Silk Road in northwest China, according to a report in Live Science. Seven of the ten excavated tombs were large, brick structures, one of which contained carvings of mythical creatures. Four of the creatures represent different seasons and parts of the heavens, including the White Tiger of the West, …