The body of an American tourist, Sheila von Wiese Mack, has been discovered in a suitcase in a five-star hotel in Bali, Indonesia. Her body was found on Tuesday stuffed into a suitcase in the boot of a taxi parked in front of the St. Regis hotel in the Nusa Dua resort area.

A pair of large international studies are questioning the validity of the notion that the less salt a person consumes, the better. In fact, the Canadian-led research suggests too little salt in the diet may even be a bad thing. The studies, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved more than 100,000 people in 18 countries and …

A heavy concrete panel fell only a meter from a person sleeping in Pigeon Park Wednesday morning, from a decrepit building that is owned by one of the biggest developers in the city.

A man and a woman are dead after they were struck by a train Wednesday in Milton.

The victim of extensive fishing, a 10-foot Amazonian fish appears to be headed straight for extinction in several areas. According to BBC News, the Arapaima, a formerly dominant fish in the Amazon River, is now extinct in eight of 41 communities observed in a study published in the journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The Arapaima is known to …

More than 12,000 new cases of cancer every year can be attributed to the patient being overweight or obese, the biggest ever study of the links between body mass index and cancer has revealed.

The winner of the largest lottery jackpot in Colorado history claimed his prize in Grand Junction on Wednesday afternoon. Claude “Al” G., who did not give out his last name, is the winner of Saturday night’s $90 million Powerball jackpot, the Denver Post reported.

Approximately two out of every five Americans will develop type 2 diabetes at some point during their adult lives, according to new U.S. government estimates. The ongoing diabetes and obesity epidemics have combined with ever-increasing human lifespans to raise lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes to about 40 percent for both men and women, said lead study author Edward Gregg, …

A 3-year-old girl who was lost alone in the Siberian wilderness for 11 days owes her life to her puppy.

Walmart employees were shocked to find a 14-year-old boy living in their Walmart. According to KTVT-TV he was able to call the store home for four days before being discovered.

Health authorities on both sides of the state line are investigating infections among 14 Kansas City area infants with a virus that can cause meningitis, as well as widespread inflammation, serious enough to require intensive care.