A glimpse of things to come at the Melbourne Fashion Festival has revealed one key look for the season: anything elegant goes.Accompanied by gypsy music, models wearing dusty-pink gowns, black...

Sex cells in the bodies of chickens can lead to some individuals that appear half male and half female. The female side is brown with a small wattle and slight build, while the male side is white...

An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of...

Police in Norwalk, Calif., are calling a 7-year-old boy a hero after he hid in the bathroom to call 911 as gunmen invaded his family’s home. TODAY’s Ann Curry has...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Police in northern Idaho arrested a robber accused of demanding a controlled drug from a pharmacy, then throwing cash on the counter before fleeing. Kootenai County Sheriff Lt....

Not since Mark Wahlberg's and Kate Moss's campaign for Calvin Klein have the label's ads been this sexually provocative: after a few relatively mushy underwear ads including one starring actress Eva...

The top 10 gaming videos watched by YouTube users in the last week include the YouTube leveraging Celebrity Magic 8-ball game, plenty of Modern Warfare 2 videos, and new kid on the...

The obsession among Asian women for perfect skin is driving the global popularity of BB creams -- with the BB standing for "blemish balm" -- with one of the latest products in this category to hit...

Hi, Carolyn: A very close friend said she was never going to do XYZ and now, nearly a decade later, she is doing XYZ. I was thrown by this decision. I thought she was the type of person to stand by...

exhibition. Put on by geek magazine turned art, design and clothing purveyor Giant Robot, the group gallery show will feature pieces from dozens of illustrators, painters, cartoonists, artists and...

Katie King, a self-described “media-obsessed chick who digs all things sci-fi,” impressed even jaded meme connoisseurs this week with her re-creation of the music video for the Beastie...

We are in the midst of an electric motorcycle revolution, and nowhere is that more obvious than on the racetrack. The new technology is not about tweaking the status quo. It’s about shattering it....

In mammals, there are two types of sex-determining chromosomes, X and Y. Each cell in an embryo has a pair of chromosomes, either XX or XY, but the cells are otherwise identical. Then, early in...

The Dell Streak is believed to have a five-inch screen, putting it somewhere between a smartphone and an e-book reader in size. The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently...

918 Spyder hybrid supercar . The wizards in Stuttgart built the plug-in hybrid on the QT and kept it super-secret until rolling it out in Geneva, where it almost literally stopped the show. Now it...

, you probably already have a panic room in your home, ready for when golf-club and baseball-bat wielding psychopaths invade your house. But what of the other place where you spend so much of your...

The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court...

It doesn’t look like a car, and it doesn’t look like it would fly, but what is believed to be the world’s oldest “roadable aircraft” is for sale. The antique was built...

Madonna and her 13-year-old budding fashionista daughter Lourdes will launch a line in teen clothing called Material Girl in the US in August.The mother-daughter collection, which will be exclusively...

Bodacious models, including Elle Macpherson - their curves barely under wraps in 1940s-style skirt suits - paraded in looks meant for "real women" at Louis Vuitton's autumn-winter 2010-11...

Ivermectin, a pill prescribed for the skin disease known as scabies, also gets rid of hair lice that are resistant to conventional lotions, a study has revealed.Lice affects more than 100 million...

A new classification of Bordeaux wines outperformed the region as a whole in 2009 sales, a wine producers' association says.The so-called appellations of Blaye, Cadillac, Castillon and Francs...

U.S. Coast Guard Flotilla 74 will teach its America's Boating Safety program Saturday at Off the Wall Adventures in South...

As previously rumored, mega-star Madonna will debut her fashion range for Macy's, called Material Girl, this August. "Material Girl is a newly created, fast-fashion junior collection that will...

My desire to dine at 2C, in Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center, did not start propitiously. The first thing that seemed to go wrong was when I tried to call to make a reservation, only to be met by an...

Report , 9 March) quotes a senior BBC source saying the corporation was concerned about the amount of criticism that "a relatively obscure documentary [which] didn't even mention Band Aid" has...

If your job keeps you on the road, you know how hard it can be to find time for a workout in between conferences, sales meetings and business dinners. But for travelers who make regular exercise a...

has promoted Jeffry Rosenthal to CEO and former CEO Mickey Newsome will serve as the sporting goods retailer’s executive chairman. Rosenthal,...

Although sales of snow sports equipment remained pretty mediocre through January, there were some bright spots. Take high-performance Alpine ski boots. Sales nationally were up 16.5 percent in...

We've weighed up the options and here's the end result: our pick of the finest kitchen scales. Click the image on the right to launch the guide Leave your comments and suggestions in the...

It started as a bit of a laugh. After my food memoir, The Settler's Cookbook, was published earlier this year, friends who can't cook and won't cook asked if I could show them how to make some of the...

TELEVISION The actress Beverley Callard admitted yesterday that she was absent from Coronation Street for five months last year because she suffered a nervous breakdown. Callard, 52, who plays the...

A public watchdog backed down yesterday in its long-running battle to force Britain's £72bn food industry to adopt colour-coded warning labels, to the disappointment of campaigners who believe...

I'm flying over Russia with Air New Zealand, travelling from Hong Kong, having just had a lovely meal of passion fruit and vodka-cured salmon, followed by braised beef short rib with garlic mash, and...

Brad Pitt and Keri Russell pictured in star-gazing magazines and blogs with their babies strapped to their bodies. Upscale versions of the traditional baby carrier are sold in stores from SoHo to...

Ryan Seacrest , 35, let down the fourth estate — or at least the fashion slice of it — when he failed to ask that question while interviewing many of the arriving celebrities on...

MTV recently announced that the “Jersey Shore” cast would not return to Seaside Heights, but head to Miami instead. Well, for those wanting to relive the antics of DJ Pauly D and Co. a...

Image Credit: Ed Wood: Everett Collection; Alice: Disney Back in the mid-’90s, I was having a drink with a prominent filmmaker who had risen up in the indie movement, and we started to talk...

Have you experienced a taste which lingers long after you have finished eating?I remember the first time I ate Italian nut shortbread (you know the ones - they are covered in icing sugar). It's hard...

Audi has released details of its new high-performance coupe, the RS5, due in Australia towards the end of the year.The coupe will become the range-topping model of the German car maker's A5 range and...

Audi took the wraps off two green concept cars at Geneva; the diminutive A1 e-tron city hatch and the sumptuous A8 Hybrid saloon.Said by Audi to be near production, the four-seat, two-door e-tron...

was described in press releases by its publishing company Square Enix as "the most highly anticipated game of the year", and though many gamers were unsure about whether it would live up to the hype...

It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly...

If there's one thing the drawn out recession has taught sports executives, it's that the new business model of state-of-the-art arenas, high ticket prices, corporate suites and amenities galore has...

Retailer Hibbett Sports Inc. said Chairman and CEO Mickey Newsome will give up the CEO's job and be replaced by the sporting goods chain's chief operating officer next...

EDMONTON — A stat appeared on a TV screen during Hockey Alberta’s press conference Wednesday with Respect Group Inc. that hammered home a point that many hockey parents lose sight of. “Less...

Four more men and two businesses have been indicted as part of a $3.6 million illegal sports betting operation. Gerlarmo “Jerry” Cammisano, 56, of Kansas City was among those indicted by...