COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 25 (UPI) -- Scientists in Denmark said an inexpensive food supplement helped reduce heart death among patients who had previously suffered heart attacks.
LOS ANGELES, May 25 (UPI) -- Yahoo! Inc. has joined six other bidders for U.S. entertainment Web site Hulu, a source close to the deal-making told The Wall Street Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's taken a close look at a mobile app that analyzes photos of urine samples and has been in contact with its maker.
BRUSSELS, May 24 (UPI) -- Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC says the European launch of its "Facebook phone" has been delayed following disappointing U.S. sales and negative reviews.
KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 24 (UPI) -- A male polar bear in Siberia is to be transferred from his home zoo to another in a bid to have him mate and produce offspring, a zoo official said Friday.
MONTREAL, May 24 (UPI) -- Montreal officials say a boil-water advisory has been lifted and residents can drink their tap water after tests showed the water safe to drink.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 24 (UPI) -- A Canadian researcher says he can't understand why the Canadian government has not declared bats, plagued by a decimating disease, an endangered species.
WOLLERAU, Switzerland, May 24 (UPI) -- Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss nanotechnology pioneer who helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope to observe and manipulate individual atoms, has died.
MOSCOW, May 24 (UPI) -- VKontakte, a Facebook-like social networking site that is Russia's largest, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake, officials said.
DURHAM, N.H., May 24 (UPI) -- A virtually unknown U.S. professor has taken a major step in solving a numerical problem that has baffled mathematicians for centuries, experts said.
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (UPI) -- Southern California beaches had overall good water quality last year, with most receiving good to excellent ratings, an annual report by Heal the Bay said.
COLOGNE, Germany, May 24 (UPI) -- An auctioneer in Germany said he has set the starting bid for an Apple-1 computer at a stunning, but not record-setting, $116,000.
LEICESTER, England, May 24 (UPI) -- King Richard III of England was buried in a hastily dug grave too small for his body with no coffin or shroud, archaeologists say in a paper published Friday.
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
GREENBELT, Md., May 23 (UPI) -- NASA released a dramatic and revealing image of an erupting Alaskan volcano Thursday taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.