Olivier Rioux, a Canadian freshman for the Florida Gators, stands 7 ft 9 in tall, surpassing Shaquille O'Neal in height. Recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest teenager, Rioux garners ...

This year’s group, Brood XIV, will emerge in numbers in the lower billions this spring, said Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that studies cicadas and gathers data as community ...

Those intricate, expansive and often horrific exploits drive Michael Cannell's "Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation" (out now from Minotaur Books).

The foot-long crustacean has been named Bathynomus vaderi and sports a head that resembles the iconic helmet of Darth Vader from the Star Wars. It is the first giant sea bug discovered in ...

Brood XIV, the second-largest group of periodical cicadas, known for their noisy mass emergence from the ground, is the only group of 17-year cicada that will emerge this spring, according to ...

He was seen arguing with a man shorter than him and then turning around to find the 7-foot, 9-inch tall Florida Gators center Olivier Rioux standing behind him. Rioux made O’Neal look like a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German meat and dairy products have been placed under international curbs after the country’s first ...

Indonesia launches a new passport to coincide with the 79th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia. The cover of the Indonesian passport, which was previously colored green, has now changed to ...

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been reported in Germany. It is the first outbreak of the disease in the country since 1988, involving a herd of water buffalo in Brandenburg ...

HAMBURG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Germany's meat and dairy exports outside the EU face severe restrictions after the country’s first case of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth was confirmed on ...

Today, Mark Gerretsen, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands, on behalf of the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, announced the contract award for the new 21 Electronic ...