A Shakespeare play dismissed as a hoax for nearly 300 years has now been accepted as the real thing. Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald, wasas its author always claimedbased on William Shakespeare's long-lost script for Cardenio , scholars say. Shakespeare publishers Arden have now published the play under the...

A mom who killed 6 of her newborn babies and stashed their corpses in her cellar goes on trial today in one of the most notorious cases in French history. Cline Lesage, 38, faces life in prison for choking the infants to death. She has confessed to the charges, but...

The streets of Bangkok will run red with blood today if things go as planned for anti-government Thai protesters. Volunteers are lining up to help the movement reach its goal of collecting 1,000 liters of blood, which red-shirted protesters plan to hurl at government offices to curse the country's...

If updates from the South by Southwest music/film/Internet/etc. extravaganza arent your thing, perhaps youll find some amusement among its top-Web-site honorees. A sampling: Waterlife : Activism winner keeps tabs on pollution in the Great Lakes. odosketch : Create animated sketches with drawing app. The Vile Plutocrat : Keep track of those individuals whose...

A lollypop-like device hooked up to a video camera is allowing a British soldier blinded in Iraq to see with his tongue. Craig Lundberg, 24, wears sunglasses with the camera embedded, the Guardian reports; the camera then turns his surroundings into electric currents sent to Lundbergs tongue, and he can...

The world's shortest man, 29-inch-tall He Pingping, died Saturday. He was 21. A native of China, He was in Rome filming a TV show when he fell ill. "From the moment I laid on eyes on him I knew he was someone special," the editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, which...

Sharks are fearsome predators, but they are no match for fishermen. Caught and eaten in soup or used in skin-care products and nutritional supplements, sharks are in danger of extinction. They may get help at this week's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. One proposal would protect eight species,...

A baby elephant who went into a coma in the womb while his mother spent a full week in labor has made his public debut at a Sydney zoo. Nicknamed Mr. Shuffles for his early difficulty walking, the calf captivated onlookers with his first shambling spin around his enclosure. I'd...

Saying its the right timing, Elton John and husband David Furnish have revealed that one of the singers past lovers committed suicide because he could not reconcile his strong Christian faith with his homosexuality. "I had absolutely no idea in the world he was going to do this," says the...