Aug. 8 (UPI) -- An Ohio-based team broke a Guinness World Record for the world's fastest monster truck when their vehicle was officially clocked traveling at 101.84 mph.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A house explosion in south London Monday morning left one child dead while four others had to be rescued from the collapsed structure, officials said.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- International Cat Day, celebrated annually on Aug. 8, was founded in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare to celebrate feline companions and raise awareness of their needs.

Smoking and older age are the two most important risk factors for cancer, a new, large study shows.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Authorities in Arkansas suspect a case of drowning after they recovered the body of a state judge from a lake over the weekend.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The Cincinnati Zoo said Monday that its new hippo baby, born last week, is a boy, giving the zoo's famous Fiona a new brother.

Children are not as physically fit as their parents were when they were kids, and this will likely harm them as the Earth warms, new research claims.

Women who go into menopause when they are younger than 40 are at greater risk of heart problems, reports a new Korean study of more than 1.4 million females.

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Catholic Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the Slovakian clergy member who was the oldest member of the Vatican's College of Cardinals, died on Monday, the church said. He was 98.

By the time the third month of the hurricane season began, the Atlantic basin had long gone quiet without any tropical activity at all since just prior to the July 4th holiday. However, that could change.