Karen Butler maintains that after being heavily sedated she awoke speaking with a thick British accent. Can it be true?

He showed a clip from a local news station that equated the portrayal of homosexuality on 'Glee' to product placement. "You throw a soda in a movie and within a few seconds everybody in the theater is thirsty for that particular brand," the woman in the clip said.

London is unprepared for a terrorist attack on the 2012 Olympics because of a chronic shortage of air ambulance crews and other fast response teams, Lady Justice Hallett warned in her report into the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks.

Joystick Division looks at gamers' reactions to the PSN hack and outage.

Here’s a headline you don’t see too often: “Rubber Chicken Turned NASA Mission Mascot Embarks on a Flight to Space.” Seriously, this is a true story.

New data from comScore for this past March has pointed to Apple nearly passing RIM in smartphone market share for the US. Shipping 18.65 million iPhones helped Apple gain half a point since December to hit 25.5 percent share in its home country.

Trash talking and sports go together like apples and pie. They are synonymous like chicken and dumplings. They mix beautifully like peanut butter and jelly!

The Long Island Serial Killer may one day take his place alongside the Gacys and the Bundys. Or he may be all but forgotten like these poor lunatics.

Looks like Skype is in play, again. Unlike last time, both the suitors have good business reasons. Between Google and Facebook, the social networking giant makes perfect sense. We actually suggested this deal six months ago. Question is: why does Skype want to sell?

Web offers up suggestions from apps to cameras as more.

For many of us a morning without coffee or tea is a like the proverbial day without sunshine. For me much of it is about the ritual. Okay, who am I kidding?

Pole dancing is on the rise as a form of fitness, but calling it a sport may still be a stretch. Or is it?

Kamel Makhloufi created this simple yet stunning visualization of Iraq war casualties using just pixels to represent deaths.

Apartment renters are the angriest and most jaded people on the planet. On one hand, I see where they're coming from: Every day, dozens of people call a renter and visit his/her apartment. The renter has to answer the same questions over and over again, they need to tour people around, and they need to feign excitement.

Think you've mastered Apple's iTunes app? Not so fast. Here are some expert tips guaranteed to help you get even more out of the media database powering your iPhone or iPad.

Your overall happiness may depend in part on whether you drew the long or short version of a gene, say researchers.

Apple reportedly made an extremely interesting move recently. when it hired audio engineer and THX sound system inventor Tomlinson Holman to head up audio at Apple.

At the state level, the GOP's attacks on reproductive rights may widen the already huge gulf between red and blue states in health, family stability, and education.

Smartphones’ share of the global cell phone market is poised to explode over the next four years, according to market research firm Pyramid Research.

No games have been played -- or even any offseason practices held -- but the Green Bay Packers remain a favorite to win Super Bowl XLVI.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the issue. Also on tap: Bill Clinton and heart disease

Why did Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survive a gunshot wound to the brain when so many others don't?

About 16 years ago, after all five of her kids had earned college degrees, Kay Mullally decided that one more diploma was needed around the house: her own.

More than 8 percent of homicide cases at the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office are child murders.

While local and national attention remains focused on the death of Caylee Marie Anthony and her mother's first-degree murder trial this month, a dozen cases involving dead children proceed anonymously to trial in Greater Orlando.

TALLAHASSEE ¿ Closing one of the most business-dominated sessions in years, Florida Republican lawmakers passed a vast array of conservative priorities Friday, from busting up the state agency that manages growth to handing over most of the state's Medicaid patients to health-maintenance organizations.

When last we checked in on Gliese 581d, a team from the University of Paris had suggested that the popular exoplanet, Gliese 581d may be habitable. This super-Earth found itself just on the edge of the Goldilocks zone which could make liquid water present on the surface under the right atmospheric conditions. However, the team’s [...]

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The next-to-last space shuttle flight has been delayed again.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A genetics research group working in a lab in Kansas, has succeeded in creating a new species of lizard by mating two distinct species of North American Whiptails, both native to New Mexico. The offspring, all females are not only fertile, but can reproduce by laying eggs that don't ...

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Today Jerry Seinfeld is debuting his very own website called, you guessed it, JerrySeinfeld.com. It will house hundreds of clips that include the 57-year-old's first network appearance on 'The Tonight Show' in 1981 up to the present day.

Following recent news that Sony’s PSN service is in the final testing stages, rumor has it that another attack on the PSN is supposedly going to happen this coming weekend.

AOL continues to pour millions of dollars into its Patch.com “hyperlocal” news project, the company confirmed on Wednesday as it released its latest financial statements

These kittens act as crash test dummies to demonstrate a few high speed head on collisions.

A federal appeals court is issuing a clear warning to employees: Violate your employer's computer-use policy and be fired.

Sony president Sir Howard Stringer has come out of hiding to offer a formal apology for the PSN disaster, as well as revealing details for the "Welcome Back" programme, including identity theft insurance.

Teddy Raw gets out of control and goes for a triple cork off a quarterpipe.

More Americans were hired last month than at any time since 2006, evidence that economic growth could pick up momentum later this year.

You don't need to see a photo of Osama bin Laden dead. A picture might have been worth a thousand words, but these days technology may trump a photograph.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A first-grader on a school field trip to a zoo was mauled by a leopard Friday after the boy scaled a railing and approached the animal's cage, a zoo spokesman said. The Wichita Eagle reported on its website that the boy received lacerations to his head and neck after the cat stuck a paw through its cage and grabbed the boy by the side of the head. He was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in fair condition. Jim Marlett, spokesman for the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, said the boy climbed the 4- to 5-foot railing surrounding the leopard exhibit, crossed an 8-foot gap and stood next to the metal mesh fence of the animal's cage. Naomi Robinson, who was at the zoo with her two children when she saw the attack around 1:20 p.m., said it looked like the leopard was trying to pull the boy into the enclosure. "It happened so quick," she said. The boy began screaming as soon as the leopard grabbed him. A man and woman nearby jumped over the railing and ran to help him, Robinson said. The cat let loose of the boy when the man kicked it in the head, Robinson said. Bystanders wrapped the boy's head in shirts and towels to stop the bleeding as he lay on the ground between the fence and leopard case. "It was terrible," Robinson said. "I'm really shaken right now. I'm just glad my children didn't see it. They were looking the other way." A Wichita School District spokeswoman told The Associated Press that counselors were sent to the zoo to talk with children who saw the attack. "Our main focus was to make sure our student was taken care of, and also the students who were at the zoo when the incident occurred," spokeswoman Susan Arensman said. "Not only that school, but many other schools were there. We set up a crisis team, talked to kids who witnessed this, and sent home letters to the parents of kids who were at the zoo to let them know what happened." She said she was told a dozen schools from her district were either at the zoo at the time of the attack or arriving. She didn't provide an immediate count of the number of students and adults who attended the trip. Arensman said the district has gotten several different versions of what happened to the Linwood Elementary student. "It depends on who you talk to," she said. "We're getting conflicting reports of what happened. Some say he was by himself. Some say lots of people were around. It's been told 20 different times, what actually happened." The boy's age hasn't been released, but Arensman said first-graders are generally 7 or 8 years old ___ Information from: The Wichita Eagle, http://www.kansas.com

In their final week of work, Florida lawmakers passed bills that would allow public-school class sizes to get larger, give charter schools approval to expand and end tenure contracts for teachers who don't have them by July 1.

Buoyant after talking with the assault force that killed the world's most wanted terrorist, President Obama on Friday declared to a hangar full of cheering soldiers that Osama bin Laden's death is proof the U.S. is making progress in Afghanistan and that the mission will ultimately be successful.

A suburban West Palm Beach woman is with charged aggravated battery after she allegedly ran over another woman during a fight over a man they were both were dating, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Orlando police are investigating an officer-involved shooting on Millenia Boulevard this afternoon, a police spokeswoman said.

While children of all ethnicities can contract Kawasaki disease (KD), a study led by researchers at the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego finds that Filipino children with KD are at a higher risk for inflammation of the blood vessels of the heart than those of other Asian and non-Asian backgrounds.

People in countries with governments that have a greater number of social services are more satisfied with life, a Baylor University researcher finds.

In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite, one of the earliest minerals formed in our solar system. It is the main component of an unusual inclusion embedded in a meteorite (NWA 1934), found in northwest Africa. These objects, known as refractory inclusions, are thought to be the first planetary materials formed in our solar system, dating back to before the formation of the Earth and the other planets.

A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon -- and may boost their efficiency -- is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland and the Institute of Physics' photovoltaic group at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

It is an article of faith among critics of public schools that there is no correlation between spending and learning. But it's not so -- at least where library spending is concerned. When support for school libraries rises, reading scores go up and learning by other measures increases also.

In the work published in the May 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Huang and his students, Guo, Feng and Trivedi, offer a first step towards understanding the source of the stable pattern of gene expression profiles by testing whether gene expression profiles are indeed established by a gene regulatory network that has the structure of a "medusa," with a command and control "head" and an enslaved periphery, as proposed by theoreticians.