Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant -- or a pig.Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus -- the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions -- is Citta the elephant. Ukraine, however, will probably go for an enormous beer-loving pig -- but there are big doubts about whether he can handle the media glare.The parade of supposedly psych

Soccer May 24, 2012

(AP photo)Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was und

Technology May 24, 2012

So-called sudden coital death is more common when a man has sex with a mistress outside than when he had sex with his wife, researchers in Italy said.(MCT)Dr. Alessandra Fisher of the University of Florence and colleagues reviewed existing research on the context in which men experience sudden death during or after sex.They found both fatal and non-fatal heart attacks were relatively rare when a m

Technology May 24, 2012

To celebrate a Detroit restaurant's 95th anniversary, 955 raw hot dogs were dropped from a hovering helicopter onto a soccer field Wednesday morning.The stunt, arranged by WKQI-FM, Detroit, honored the American Coney Island restaurant, whose third-generation owner, Grace Keros, noted the famed eatery has "been at the same location for the past 95 years."The hot dogs, referred to at the restaurant

Food May 24, 2012

A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.Vince Weiguang Li (second from left)In 2009, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the death of Tim McLean, a 22-year-old carnival worker who was sittin

People May 23, 2012

 Alessandra Fisher Li Bingbing arrives at the 65th Canne international film festival,in southern France on Thursday. (Yonhap News)China's actress and singer attended the 65th Canne international film festival in France on Thursday.

Film May 23, 2012

Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed, German researchers say. (MCT)Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that given the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred to date, such disasters may occur once every 10 to 20 years.Tha

Technology May 23, 2012

A French woman forced a transatlantic flight from Paris to North Carolina to be diverted to Maine on Tuesday after claiming she had a "surgically implanted device."This photo is not directly related to the article (Bloomberg)The U.S. Airways jet with 179 passengers and crew on board landed safely in Bangor, Maine, where the woman was taken into custody by the FBI before the Boeing 767 continued it

World News May 23, 2012