The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday.

Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation

Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to 'married' on Saturday.

Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California, home, c

The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant has lost her bid to win the title.

Jenna Talackova, 23, competed with 61 contestants on Saturday night. She was am

National Park officials say a climber has died of injuries after falling during a climb of Alaska's Mount McKinley.

A park release on Saturday says the climber fell about 1,100-feet on Friday, while

In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surround

A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.

Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering

Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco.

A woman suffered third-degree burns after what appeared to be the spontaneous combustion of rocks that had been scooped up from a Southern California beach, a fire official said.

The 43-year-old woma

Robert F. Kennedy Junior's family says his estranged wife inspired them with 'her kindness, her love, her gentle soul and generous spirit'.

Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol pr