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These two people came very close to being hit by trains and cars [COMPILARIZ] Hundreds across the country are today crossing fingers, and tipping salt over their left shoulder to ward off any bad luck which could creep up on one of our unluckiest days of the year. So to deter some of those bad vibes, we’ve put together a ...

1 of 5 Next All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between 1958 and 1992. Such photography ought to be impossible without a microscope or other expensive gear, but it just perfectly illustrates the ...

Despite assurances from companies like Intel that the worst is over for the PC market, the tune coming from analyst firm IDC paints a very different picture. According to IDC, PC sales are now expected to fall by 10.3% in 2013 — the worst contraction on record. The new forecast suggests that PCs will drop a further 4% in 2014, before ...

HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images It was the first-ever armed police operation, officials said. With a population of only 322,000 and one of the lowest crime rates in the world, police rarely draw their weapons in the island nation. LONDON — Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in the ...