A 12-year-old Indian rollerskating fanatic and a skateboarding goat were among the record-breakers who made it into the 2014 edition of the Guinness World Records, released on Thursday.

Indian-American actor Vivek Shah, who sent extortion threats to several high profile people including Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.

Jessica Biel has reportedly changed her name to Jessica Timberlake but will continue to use her own name professionally.

British author J.K. Rowling, who finished her seven-book Harry Potter series about adventures of the boy wizard in 2007, has decided to write a screenplay for a film based on a minor character in the series.

Climate change, rather than humans, may have been responsible for driving the woolly mammoth to extinction, according to a new study.

Scientists claim to have discovered unexpected ingredients for life inside a chunk of space rock that fell on Earth over California last year.

Priyanka Chopra has received a National Football League promotion.

Painful memories are hard to shake, but a new study suggests unwanted details can be erased, raising hope for people suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Saul Landau, a prolific, award-winning documentary filmmaker who travelled the world profiling political leaders like Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Chile’s Salvador Allende and used his camera to draw atten

In a major milestone, Nasa’s new black-hole-hunter spacecraft — NuSTAR — has detected its first 10 supermassive black holes, lying at the hearts of distant galaxies between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth.