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  • Adults can learn just like kids

    The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks may not hold true for everyone. As more and more research has suggested, we never lose the ability to learn like a child. A new study suggests that as adults, we actually lose confidence in our ability to learn as we age and lack of time and self-esteem stand in the way of adults picking up new skills, Daily Mail reported. Children are ...

  • Whose cat is beautiful Chechen leader vs TV celebrity

    Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov entered into a bizarre public row with a Russian socialite over whose cat was the "most beautiful". "Dear friends! Me and Tina Kandelaki are having an argument over whose cat is more beautiful. I think it's mine. What do you think?" Kadyrov tweeted. Kadyrov also posted a photo of his white cat, Zazulya, on Instagram. "Tina Kandelaki is a friend, but the truth is ...

  • Doug Ford says drug allegations against him are not true

    Toronto Coun. Doug Ford says allegations that he once dealt hashish are "not true" and an "outright lie." In an interview with CP24, Ford denied ...

  • Leading scientist attacks university over outrageous IVF treatment patent

    Fertility experts say the patent, which covers the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo, encroaches on a naturally occurring phenomenon. Photograph: ...

  • Polanski laments leveling of sexes as idiotic

    CANNES, France — Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women. The director said the pill has "changed the place of women in our times," while talking to reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. He was there to premiere his film "Venus in Fur," adapted from the David Ives play. Polanski said the leveling of the ...


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Movie Review

X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes [DVD]

X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes [DVD]

X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes is one of B-movie auteur Roger Corman's more interesting films, a science-fiction parable about an ambitious medical researcher who tests an experimental serum on himself, which gives him the ability to see through objects. The story shamelessly and successfully combines the same threads of science fiction and horror that fueled Mary Shelly's Frankenst ... ...

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  • Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record

    FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...

  • Cruel twist opens a new journey

    They were married on February 12, 2005, sealing a romance that began when they were teenagers. A little over a year later, their marriage was put to the ultimate test when Jackie was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.Jackie's first symptoms were subtle. Fumbling the ball during touch footy, arm soreness, occasional loss of balance. Then one day active, happy 25-year-old Jackie ...

  • Hany Abu Assads Omar entertainment with a twist at Cannes

    The action starts with the young baker Omar (the newcomer Adam Bakri) climbing over the separation wall - dodging surveillance cameras and bullets in the process -- so that he can see his secret love Nadja (Leem Lubany). Fed up with being constantly harassed, Omar and his joke-spewing friends Amjad (Samer Bisharat) and Nadja's brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani) decide to exact some revenge and ...

  • FBI Agents Die Under Strange Circumstances

    May 25, 2013 Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a ...

  • Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence paper

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of ...

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