The food in famous paintings of the meal has grown by biblical proportions over the last millennium, researchers report in a medical journal Tuesday. Using a computer, they compared the size of the food to the size of the heads in 52 paintings of Jesus Christ and his disciples at their final meal b... [More]

Wrapping up one of its most vexing investigations, the FBI concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and further unnerved a nation still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. The agency formally closed the case Friday, ending the long, frust... [More]

 J.K. Rowling has been named in a lawsuit alleging she stole ideas for her wildly popular and lucrative "Harry Potter" books from another British author. The estate of the late Adrian Jacobs on Wednesday added Rowling as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in June against Bloomsbury Publishing P... [More]

A group of conservationists threw bottles of butyric acid at Japanese whalers and blasted their ship with paint balls, while the Japanese fired water cannons in their latest Antarctic Ocean clash, both sides said Thursday. No one was injured in Wednesday's confrontation, the most recent in a string... [More]

U.S. President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties. Obama's first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama is sure to draw angry complaints from Beij... [More]

Swine flu cases are down, but health officials say the disease's cumulative impact has grown to 57 million U.S. illnesses, 257,000 hospitalizations and 11,690 deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new estimates Friday. They represent cases from the time swine flu was f... [More]

Toyota is considering a recall of its hot-selling Corolla subcompact after complaints about power steering problems — another blow to the world's largest automaker already reeling from a string of recalls for safety problems. Company President Akio Toyoda, meanwhile, said he won't be attendin... [More]

Alexander McQueen was an imaginative showman and his runway presentations were often moody and theatrical, like this one, part of a 2004 charity show in London. World renowned designer Alexander McQueen was found dead this morning in his London apartment. He was 40 years old. The British native, wh... [More]

That's the nickname given by the crew to one of the 72-ton, 40-foot (12-meter)-long Assault Breacher Vehicles. Fitted with a plow and nearly 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms) of explosives, the Breachers, as they are commonly known, are the Marines Corps' answer to the deadliest threat facing NATO troo... [More]

Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals. The footprints, believed to be more than 100 million years old, were discovered after a three-mo... [More]