Former Fresno IRS employee Viririana Hernandez, 30, has been charged with an identity theft conspiracy that used information stolen from the files of other IRS employees, says U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner.

It was a long overdue vacation for 68-year-old Yasmine Calehr and she was looking forward to spending two-weeks with her three grandsons in Bali, Indonesia. She lived in Houston, the boys in Amsterdam, making for complicated travel arrangements. Yasmine left Houston, Texas a day ahead of the boys. The plan was to meet them on the popular Indonesian island on …

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has developed the world’s first anti-malaria vaccine, designed for use on children in Africa. If GSK acquires the regulatory approval it is currently seeking, it will mark a big step forward in the fight against the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, which currently kills over 600,000 people a year.

Cheyenne – For the first time in more than 30 years, palaeontologists are about to revisit one of North America’s most remarkable troves of late Pleistocene fossils: The bones of tens of thousands of animals piled at least 9m deep at the bottom of a sinkhole-type cave.

Several concerns about a prescription drug used to prevent HIV infection in people at high risk are being put to rest by the results of new research. Follow-up from a landmark study that proved the drug works now shows that it does not encourage risky sex and is effective even if people skip some doses.

Call it the green-eyed monster. A new study being done at UC San Diego suggests that jealous isn’t just a human emotion – it extends to our four-legged friends as well. New research is confirming what many pet owners already suspect — dogs can get downright possessive when it comes to the love of their master.

Kamloops is currently experiencing a flash flood as severe thunderstorms take over the weather in the area. Up to 20 mm of rain were expected in the area and sewers and drains have begun to back up all over the city. The sudden downpour is wreaking havoc on the road systems and social media is going crazy with photos and …

Lyndsay Kirkham, A freelance coder, was having lunch in downtown Toronto yesterday when she claimed she overheard some IBM executives discussing why they have concerns with hiring women. “They were talking about how they weren’t going to be hiring any new women – specifically any young women – that they were only going to be hiring mature women, because young …

A passenger plane of TransAsia Airline crashed while performing an emergency landing at the airport of Penghu archipelago in Taiwan, Chinese newspaper People’s Daily reports. According to most recent reports, 51 people were killed, seven were injured.

The Canada Revenue Agency has launched a political-activities audit of Pen Canada, a small charity promoting freedom of expression that has criticized the Harper government in the past. Two tax auditors showed up Monday morning at the tiny Toronto offices of Pen Canada, asking to see a wide range of internal documents.

A group of workmen claim to have seen a giant Asian hornet on their building site in Fife, Scotland. It was rumoured a few months ago that the huge hornets, with a 6mm sting, were on their way to the UK – and this could be proof.