Notorious serial killer “Jack the Ripper,” who terrorized the streets of London in 1888, was a surgeon from Essex called Stephen Herbert Appleford, claims a statistics professor in Uruguay. In an essay called “Travelling through time to trap Jack the Ripper,” Professor Eduardo Cuitino at the University ORT in Montevideo said for the past two years he analyzed data related to Doctor Appleford and found clues linking the surgeon to the killer.According to the profile provided by Cuitino, Appleford

Monkeys are just like the vast majority of human beings when it comes to sex -- when they go ape, they want privacy.Among long-tailed macaques, the urge for hanky-panky was dampened when they were watched by other monkeys, according to an unusual experiment reported in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.Scientists from the Biomedical Primate Research Center in the Netherlands monitored 15 female and seven male macaques in a giant enclosure for four months.They installed everything f

NASA says initial experiments by its Mars rover Curiosity show the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument (CheMin) identified minerals in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by the rover, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported Tuesday."Much of Mars is covered with dust, and we had an incomplete understanding of its mineralogy," said David Bish, CheMin c

The most devastating storm in decades to hit the most densely populated U.S. region cut off modern communication and left millions without power Tuesday, as thousands who fled their waterlogged homes wondered when _ if _ life would return to normal.A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 50 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn't finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York state to dump more of its water a

Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.The death toll for what was supposed to be a four-day cease-fire between the regime of President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his overthrow exceeded 500, and activists guessed the government's heavy reliance on air power reflected its inability to roll back rebel gains.“The army

The Lotte Giants' manager Yang Seung-ho has resigned from his post, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) team announced Tuesday, to take the fall for the club's failure to reach a final during his two-year tenure.The Busan-based Giants said Yang had offered to step down in a meeting with the team president, Chang Byung-soo, last Wednesday, and the management decided to accept his resignation offer.Yang, 52, replaced Jerry Royster as the Giants' manager in October 2010. Royster, the first Americ

They have become outrageously famous in a week but the consequences of having a scandalous blog are starting to set in for Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee.Lee, 23, may be kicked out of her family home after “Sumptuous Erotica”, the blog she shared with Tan, 24, made the headlines in several newspapers here and in Singapore.“My mother gave me an ultimatum marry him or move out within a month,” she said, adding that she was “a little scared” about the prospect.She had just graduated with a marketing degr