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At age 29, Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with aggressive terminal brain cancer and given only six months to live. She has since moved to Oregon, which has a death-with-dignity law, and is advocating for more assisted-death legislation in the US.

Yahoo has claimed that several of its servers which came under attack over the weekend were not affected by Shellshock as at first thought, but a similar bug. Yahoo’s chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, revealed that attackers had been attempting to use the Shellshock bug to infect Yahoo’s systems, but had found another way into a few of its …

A black bear cub was found dead in Central Park on Monday morning. The Wall Street Journal reports that the bear was suffering from cuts to its side.

Residents in Monroe County are left in shock after a domestic dispute on Friday that began over divorce papers and escalated into gunshots, leaving two women injured and two men dead.

Deep within the bone marrow resides a type of cells known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). These immature cells can differentiate into cells that produce bone, cartilage, fat, or muscle – a trait that researchers have tried to exploit for tissue repair.

The remains of Teneriffe murder victim Mayang Prasetyo will be repatriated to her family home in southern Sumatra for burial, an Indonesian foreign affairs official confirmed on Tuesday. Marcus Volke, 28, was caught boiling severed parts of Mayang Prasetyo’s body on his stove in his Brisbane apartment when police responded to requests for a welfare check Saturday night. Other parts …

Your genes may be to blame if you can’t get started in the morning without a cup of coffee. Six genes associated with our love, or otherwise, of coffee have now been identified.

Many music fans applaud Mariah Carey for actually singing live at her concerts, but some fans in Japan might be wondering if she should try lip-syncing. The 44-year-old singer played the first date of her ‘Elusive Chanteuse World Tour’ at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo. But during her rendition of ‘Vision of Love’ – her debut single from 1990 – …

The mother of a man believed to have killed and dismembered his transgender girlfriend in Brisbane before taking his own life said she had no indication anything was wrong.

Surveillance video from the toxic tea incident at a restaurant in Utah has just been released. In the video, you can see Jan Harding in a blue shirt. She takes a few sips of her iced tea, then spit it out and rinses her mouth out with water.

An Australian chef has killed his girlfriend, dismembered her and boiled parts of her body before taking his own life, police say. Marcus Volke, 28, was fleeing officers who had come to his Brisbane apartment after reports of a foul smell when he slashed his own throat in a bin.