A woman who adopted the surname of iconic Star Wars character Luke Skywalker as her middle name, has had her passport application rejected by the Home Office because of copyright issues.

The ‘Taken’ star was left heartbroken when he switched off Natasha Richardson’s life support in 2009 following a tragic ski accident and he admits he still expects to “hear her” walk through the door at times.

One of the gravest medical conditions diagnosed in infants is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a group of rare, inherited immune disorders sometimes referred to as “bubble baby disease.” Children with SCID lack the means to fight infection and usually don’t survive past their first year, unless they receive a transplant of blood-forming stem cells to replace their missing immune system.

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that about 2,000 deaths in America are tied to the weather and two-thirds of them can be attributed to extreme cold .

Tuesday night on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert poked fun at Sarah Palin‘s news channel that she announced on Monday.

Two years after scientists trapped the Higgs boson in the bowels of the Swiss Alps, another of the great puzzles of quantum physics has been caught in captivity. First proposed last year, the “Cheshire Cat” paradox plunges scientists into the world of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s book.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced 2 new measures that give the green light for driverless cars to take to UK roads from January 2015.

A beetle that kills ash trees has been found in another Massachusetts county. Suffolk County is the third in the Bay State to have infestations of the Emerald Ash Borer.

Scientists have recently revealed that the shape of the moon could be attributed to the tidal effects acting early in the moon’s history.

NASA has set a new record: the Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars in 2004, has now driven more than 25 miles. The distance is the farthest anything has driven somewhere other than Earth. A Russian lunar rover held the previous record. The Lunokhod 2 operated for less than five months, but it drove more than 24 miles on Earth’s …

The Lachine Hospital in Montreal is testing patients who underwent bariatric surgery between 2012 and 2014 for possible HIV or hepatitis infection, after a review found a tool used in the procedure hadn’t been thoroughly cleaned. About 150 people received letters last February informing them they should undergo tests as a precaution.