The wreck of a ship which has been found off the Channel Islands has been confirmed as the legendary warship HMS Victory which sank in 1744.
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Shedding light on vitamin D deficiency ‘crisis’
The seizures gripped the nine-month-old baby boy as he slept.
In the beginning, the infant’s mother thought he was sick with a cold. But then he became feverish and developed diarrhea, along with a strange, bulging soft spot on his skull. According to a report in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, once the worried mother and her baby arrived at a hospital and doctors conducted a series of tests, she heard a diagnosis that had become vanishingly rare since the 1940s: her baby had rickets.
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Phil the groundhog sees six more weeks of winter
America's most famous groundhog declared on Monday that the country will have six more weeks of winter.
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Bouncing Back From New Year's Failures
It's February now, and to those who have broken their New Year's resolutions, psychologists say surprise, surprise.
Research shows that a majority of us fail at our noble cause to quit smoking, or to go to the gym, or to save money within weeks of Jan. 1.
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Lost thief holes up in bank lavatory
A hapless thief drilled his way into a French bank at the weekend, but missed the safe and instead found himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested, a French newspaper reported on Sunday.
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