Imagine sitting on the top of the world, with a view of mountains and rivers in front of you. Then imagine plummeting toward the ground the next moment. Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado offers an experience closest to plunging hellward, by introducing what it claims to be the world’s highest roller coaster, according to news reports. The “Cliffhanger,” which cost close to $1 million ...

U.S. scientists recently claimed to have found the remains of the legendary lost city of Ciudad Blanca (“White City”) in Honduras, according to news reports. Using laser-based light detection and ranging technique, researchers from the University of Houston and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping have managed to locate ruins of the ancient city, hidden deep within the jungle for centu...

The anomalous disappearance of neutrons may be explained by their mirror particles in a parallel universe, Italian theoretical physicists claimed. Past experiments showed that the loss rate of some very slow neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of a magnetic field. This left scientists dumbfounded because a neutron, by definition, is a neutral particle. However, a theory by...

British couple is calling for a ban against self-harming sites, after vicious comments from such sites pushed their daughter to take her own life, according to news reports. Their daughter, 15-year-old Rosie Whitaker, was hit by a train on Monday in what authorities presume was a suicide. Whitakers believe the tragedy was triggered by websites that idealizes extremely skinny bodies, and degrades...

Over 7,000 Japanese K-pop fans will visit South Korea late June to attend an event held by boy-band JYJ, its agency said Wednesday. Cjes Entertainment said the 2012 JYJ Membership Week will host 15,000 Korean fans along with 7,024 Japanese fans that will visit Korea to attend the large-scale fan event. “No other Hallyu star has been able to gather such a huge flock of fans in a single event,” c...

She came to America with dreams, and was left with only nightmares. A young South Korean woman who was tricked into sexual slavery described the past six years of her life, which had virtually been a living hell. The victim -- who asked to be identified only as Soo -- said that she came to the U.S. looking for a job and paid her "recruiter" $7,000 (8 million won). But instead of a legitimate j...

Age is just a number. It sounds like a banal catchphrase, but not to 75-year-old Ernestine Shepherd. In 2010, she became the world’s oldest female bodybuilder at the age of 73. Two years later, she shows no sign of slowing down as she participates in bodybuilding contests while teaching others to live a healthy life. Ernestine says she was not always super-fit. “When I was younger, I was neve...

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 ...