Agence France-Presse photographer Ronaldo Schemidt has won the prestigious 2018 World Press Photo of the Year Award.
The winning photo showed a masked Venezuelan protester on fire, taken during violent protests in Caracas.
Mr Schemidt's photo also won the Spot News - Singles category at a prize-giving ceremony in Amsterdam.
The photo,...
Biting into the "hottest pepper in the world" sounds painful enough. But for one 34-year-old man, the daring feat resulted in excruciating headaches, known as "thunderclap" headaches, according to a new report of his case.
Shortly after, he began having dry heaves and experiencing thunderclap headaches — brief and intensely...
With the population of flyers is aging, many arriving on board with pre-existing disease and longer flights, the announcement, 'Is there a doctor on board' seems to be more common, says Dr. W. Gifford Jones in this week's instalment of The Doctor Game.
Every time it happens to me, it...
A jawbone of a giant ichthyosaur found in England may belong to one of the largest animals that ever lived.
Found by fossil collector Paul de la Salle in Lilstock, Somerset, the 205 million-year-old remains have now been analysed by an international team of palaeontologists.
They concluded it belonged to a...
Buzz Aldrin has passed a lie detector test after claiming that he has encountered alien life, it's been reported.
The former Lunar Module Pilot, who was the second man on the moon, was one of a number of astronauts who revealed accounts of their sightings under lab conditions at the...
Michigan police department auditions kittens for feline unit.
The Troy police department added a cat to the ranks Friday after auditioning five felines from the Michigan Humane Society.
The cat will be used for therapeutic purposes and make public appearances. A Troy officer who has two cats at home is getting...
Researchers say they have successfully grown and harvested their first crop of vegetables, without soil or sunlight, and in the future, it could help astronauts grow food on other planets.
"We have learned a lot about self-sufficient plant breeding in the last few weeks, it has become clear that Antarctica...
At first glance, it looks like a fiery monster out of "The Incredibles." Or maybe a glowing alien orb, or a giant, irritated zit popping up above the Earth's surface.
But it's neither. Rather, it's an incredibly rare, 65-foot-tall (20 meters) lava-dome fountain.
Normally, volcanoes erupt lava in powerful jets that...
THE Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the most distant single star ever seen.
Astronomers have identified a star 9 billion light years from Earth – the farthest individual star ever seen.
Usually is it impossible to make out stars at distances greater than around 100 million light years,...
