A German shepherd named Astro who has been missing from his family for more than 9 years is finally home.

The Geary family was shocked when they recently received a call from an animal control officer who said that Astro had been found. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Some key events in the history of General Motors Corp. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

For the last 31 years, Charles Free has lived an ordinary life. He fell in love, married and raised two children. He spent more than 20 years in the Las Vegas construction business, working his way up to project manager. His family calls him a caring man, a model citizen. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Last night for the season opening of Wife Swap a professional organizer swaped with a Pirate family. Here is the Pirate's family bio.
Baur Family picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

A man who broke his left leg in a motorbike crash 29 years ago is to undergo an amazing operation to grow back 6cm of dead bone. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 2 years ago

How old is a piece of string? In this case, 8,000 years - making it the oldest length of string ever found in Britain. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A grandmother has been left virtually housebound for two years because she burps uncontrollably.

Jean Driscoll, 72, said she started belching two years ago and despite visits to two doctors and three hospitals, noone has been able to diagnose what it wrong with her. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 4 weeks ago

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
– Brothers Grimm, “Snow White”
We are at a crossroads. It is the beginning of a new administration and the end of an old one. There are those who would like to forget the last eight years. It’s the magic-slate idea. As if you could lift up an acetate window and those eight years would suddenly vanish. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A Croatian man claims he has drunk nothing but Coca-Cola for the past 40 years – because he promised his mother he would not touch alcohol. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today picked by muppet 2 years ago

Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

One species of burrowing frogs can survive for years buried in mud without food and water. New research has figured out how the frog and other "super-sleeper" animals do it. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Hurricane Katrina pulled a pair of best friends apart.

But nearly four years later, fate and a whole lot of persistence have brought a dog and his owner back together. That whole time, Jessie Pullins was desperately searching for his best friend and dog, J.J. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Astronomers say they have found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
A new technique enabled the cosmologists to make the find, which should help advance knowledge into these rare phenomena and their role in generating other stars picked by Bingo 5 months ago