Young people, mostly female, gather inside a small cottage in Kolkata, India. They twist and turn, laughing and joking as they try to dance to the music. It seems like another jolly day at a typical dance class, except for one thing: The participants are all victims of horrific crimes. It is a dance therapy session started by Kolkata Sanved, a human rights organization that uses dance to heal v...

The story of a Chinese girl suffering from rare condition that left her body covered with black hair surfaced in the news on Friday. Six-year-old Liu Jiangli was born with a coating of black fur on the left side of her face and across 60% of the rest of her body. She was just two when her mother walked out on her, shortly before her father abandoned her at nursery school. The nursery made newsp...

Is this the world’s cuddliest baby sitter or what? A YouTube video of a cat putting a baby to sleep has been viewed by nearly 8 million viewers as of Thursday. In the video uploaded by user aarongrant1, little Connar is tucked in by black cat “Stewie.” As Connar fidgets and cries, Stewie gently rubs the baby’s face with his paw. Near the end of the video, the cat looks pointedly at the camera ...

A British man effectively ‘ratted on’ himself after he wrote a Facebook message during a trial that he may ‘get away with’ his assault crime, according to news reports. Michael Ruse, 21-year-old charged for attacking a friend’s father, posted a status update as the jury were preparing their verdict, saying “Yeah, I think I get away with it tbh (to be honest) x.” Unfortunately for the over-confi...

Italian archeologists discovered last month a skeleton believed to have been part of an exorcism ritual, providing clues to how vampire myths became popular around the world, the Daily Mail reported. The skeleton, found in a mass grave on the island of Lozzarretto Nuovo in Venice, was buried with a brick jammed in its jaws. It is believed that whoever buried the woman suspected her of being a va...

A Florida woman was arrested Saturday for allegedly choking her boyfriend because he refused to marry her, according to news reports. Nikoleta Karoly, a 24-year-old reportedly from Hungary, needed to marry her boyfriend in order to get a green card, but he had different opinions on the matter. He said he was not sure about marrying Karoly because of her violent temper and the fact that she had ...

U.S. scientists have found that the evolution of birds may have triggered the extinction of gigantic insects, according to a report on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz studied the fossil records dating back to Carboniferous period, and found that high oxygen levels of the time allowed species like dragonfly-like Meganisopt...

From the movie “A Beautiful Mind” to television drama “House M.D.,” the notion of the psychotic genius has always been popular to public audiences. However, scientists with a history of various mental conditions themselves have suggested that there is an actual correlation between being mentally ill and being smart, according to an article on the website Livescience. In the report, a group of p...

U.S. scientists are studying sheets Arctic ice sheets, looking for evidence that can help them find alien microorganisms that may have evolved in the Solar System. A group of researchers, led by environmental biogeochemist Jeffrey White from Indiana University, looked at glaciers in Greenland to study the methane released by methanogenic microbes. By analyzing the methane emissions, White and h...

A Portuguese flight attendant received a surprise marriage proposal from her boyfriend during a flight from Lisbon to Barcelona, according to news reports. The 29-year-old flight attendant Vera Silva was caught off guard when her boyfriend Joao Vieira suddenly stood up in middle of a flight, asking her to marry him in front of about 80 passengers. Vieira had told his now-fiancé that he will be l...

A study has suggested that frequent porn use by men can hurt their romantic partners’ self esteem as well as increase disatisfaction in their relationships, Livescience.com reported. The research by Destin Stewart, a clinical psychology intern at the University of Florida, sought to clarify the anecdotal theory that porn can harm relationships. Stewart asked 308 heterosexual college women, aged ...

The NBA draft is one of most anticipated event of the year, but perhaps especially so for former basketball legend and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan. His Bobcats have plummeted through the shortened 2011-12 season, finishing with abysmal 7-59 record. Its .106 winning percentage is the worst in NBA history. The only upside of its epic failure is that it awarded them a 25 percent chance ...

A small asteroid had a close encounter with Earth on Tuesday, according to NASA scientists. The 5-meter space rock, called 2012 KP42, was not spotted until a day before it came within 14,400 kilometers of Earth. Its closest approach to Earth was less than one-26th of the average distance between the planet and the moon, which is 386,000 kilometers. However, given its diminutive size, experts sa...

Scientists found that hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago by looking at human skeletons buried during the early Neolithic era, Science Daily and BBC reported Monday. The study, conducted by archaeologists from universities of Bristol, Oxford and Cardiff found that ancient people that were buried with tools had better access to preferred farmlands than those without. Researchers used...