Is Japan sinking? (Creepy Video) The soil sank nearly 3 feet at this water purification plant that serves 19,000 people, breaking pipes and flooding underground structures. Long-lasting quake may have caused more widespread damage than previously thought. The scale of Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami wasn’t the only thing that surprised geologists. The 9.0 earthquake in Japan —... 

US scientists discovered two giant whirlpools in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guyana and Suriname. It became a sensational discovery because this part of the ocean has been studied thoroughly, and no one expected anything like that to appear in the area. More importantly, no one can understand where the whirlpools came from and what surprises they may bring to people. According to Brazilian... 

New census data confirm that some major metropolitan areas flipped from majority white to majority populations of minorities during the past decade. White people are now in the minority in 46 of the nation’s 366 metro areas, including New York, Washington, San Diego, Las Vegas and Memphis, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. That number is up from 32 in 2000, 10 in... 

It seems like the entire conspiracy is beginning to unravel in real time. First Crazy Marvin turned out to be undercover Mossad (which explains his facility with a chokehold) and now this. Last week, Notorious B.I.G.’s FBI files were released, followed by Tupac’s this week. The files alleged links to organised crime allegations as well as a Jewish Defence League (JDL) organisation (no longer open). The... 

The Chicago Tribune reports that a school in Chicago has banned students from bringing packed lunches from home – unless they have a medical excuse. Principal Elsa Carmona said her goal is protect students from their own unhealthful food choices, stating: “Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,” Carmona said. “It’s about the nutrition and... 

Primadonna: Tonka dropped a fifth of his body weight because he was depressed that he wasn't getting enough cuddles. Now Donna Kilpatrick, 16 and Jayden Doevendans, 16, have cheered him up. Handlers at an animal sanctuary in north-east Australia were mystified when their star attraction was brought low by a mystery illness. Tonka the wombat shed 20 percent of his body weight after Cyclone Yasi... 

Not long ago, Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products but now it seems that they want to take it even further, as far as bannings dogs from society. Dogs are “unclean” and should be banned from society. That is what 39 Iranian legislators have proposed to the country’s 290-member parliament, known as the Majlis. Iran’s official Islamic Republic... 

Once upon a time in America, if you were a couple of little girls and you wanted to sell lemonade or girl scout cookies at a little stand in front of your home nobody would give you any problems. In fact, most of the people passing by would have smiled and would have seen it as a sign of hope that the next generation was being so industrious. Well, that is not the way that it works anymore. Today,... 

Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal party of Canada gets confronted about the Bilderberg group, the North American Union, and Fluoride. At a stop in Hamilton Ontario. For his part, Ignatieff answered the question about his opponent Harper’s Bilderberg visits and officially denounced secrecy. Among Ignatieff’s sappy speech lines is that “It is time for a change.” Somehow, I think I’ve... 

Kremlin's human rights council, Mikhail Fedotov (photo), said the report was "propaganda material". Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the three European countries with the worst record on human rights in 2010, the U.S. State Department said in an annual survey released Friday. The survey, “2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” covered 194 countries worldwide, excluding... 

The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behaviour,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. In response to thousands of inquiries from citizens concerned about fallout from the Fukushima... 

A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an emergency relief crew decked in the very same type of hazmat suits being worn by workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Except instead of radiation, the leaked chemical at the water plant was actually hydrofluorosilicic acid, a chemical fluoride component commonly added to... 

A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM 1 gene, which creates what some experts describe as “super superbugs”, has spread to germs that cause cholera and dysentery, and is circulating freely in other bacteria... 

Monkey business: A rhesus monkey on the uninhabited island of Cayo Santiago. Racial, ethnic and religious prejudice may lie in our evolutionary past, according to new research using monkeys. Several experiments have found the animals were more wary of outsiders and associated bad things with them. The research was conducted on the uninhabited Puerto Rico island of Cayo Santiago, which has a large rhesus... 

At least 13,000 cancers in the UK every year are the result of people’s drinking habits, according to one of the largest studies ever carried out into diet and cancer. The research, carried out across eight European countries including the UK, has found that thousands of cancers could be prevented if men had the equivalent of no more than two drinks a day and women had no more than one. Nearly...