TEHRAN – The most talked about confrontation in Tehran these days began normally enough. A young woman walking down the street, hiding only half her hair, was accosted by the morality police, called a slut and told to cover up. The incident became interesting when the girl responded with a …

A very dark spot on Mars could be an entrance to a deep hole or cavern, according to scientists studying imagery taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast …

Remember years ago this story about a guy who came out of some coma he had been in for something like 12 years. Twelve years. And he just wakes up and starts talking and talking. What was weird at the time is that he had pretty much picked up right …

NASA released a new book on Thursday to commemorate the last five decades of achievement in aeronautics, science and technology, and spaceflight since the launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik ushered in the Space Age. The U.S. space agency is also celebrating its own 50th anniversary in 2008. Sputnik’s historic launch …

Actor Yul Brynner, best known for his role in The King and I, died from lung cancer in 1985 after a life long addiction to smoking that began when he was 12. Just months before his death, he looked into the television cameras on Good Morning America and said, “Now …

Luther Ingram, the man who co-wrote one of pop music’s greatest hits, has died at age 69. Ingram, whose recording of “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” was a No. 1 hit in 1973, died Monday in St. Louis. He’d had a kidney transplant several …

Scientists announced on Tuesday the discovery of a fifth planet in a distant star system that now looks like a “cousin” to our own. Known as 55 Cancri, the sun-like star harbors the most number of planets ever discovered outside our solar system. “We now know that our sun and …

The little guy. The average Joe. Or Joanne. Often dismissed. More often ignored. And on Wall Street, much more often disparaged. Dumb money to their smart money. I’m not so sure about that. I’ve been covering business news for some 27 years now, and you know what I’ve discovered? Smart …

Clooney’s Darfur Millions | Naomi Campbell’s Fireworks | New Line Guys Clooney, Pals Raise Millions for Darfur This morning on “Good Morning America,” producer Jerry Weintraub will announce how much money his new charity has raised for Darfur relief. It’s going to be in the millions and should be a …

New images beamed back by a NASA spacecraft that flew by Jupiter earlier this year are giving scientists their most detailed glimpse yet of the gas giant and its moons. On Feb. 28, the New Horizons probe passed within 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) of Jupiter as part of …