With NHL playoffs days away, Canadian hockey fans are being encouraged to get hairy and grow beards to raise funds for heart and stroke research. (www.beardathon.ca)For the second year, the National Hockey League Players' Association is teaming with the Heart and Stroke Foundation to raise funds by participating in the players' longstanding tradition of growing beards during the playoffs.In a rele

The FBI said an attempted bank robber in Chicago was foiled by a teller who told her the bank was closed and she should come back the following day. (MCT)The criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court said Olga Perdomo walked into the Albany Bank and Trust on West Lawrence Avenue around 5 p.m. on March 29 and handed a teller a note demanding "all of your money, no cops, no dye pack,"

Extraterrestrial life in the solar system may be hiding beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa, safe from blasts of radiation, U.S. researchers say.Graphic image of Jupiter (MCT)The frozen moon is subject to constant and significant blasts of radiation from Jupiter's magnetic field that could annihilate life at shallow depths, so scientists are conducting an experiment to determine how dee

An outpost billed as America's smallest town is up for sale this week, complete with its own schoolhouse and gas station, with bidding starting at an enticing $100,000. (MCT)For a sum which would barely buy a one-room apartment in most places -- and a lot less in big cities -- the purchaser of Buford, Wyoming would get over 10 acres of land including a three-bedroom home, a garage, and a cellphone

Republican Mitt Romney notched a huge presidential primary triple win Tuesday, strengthening an already compelling case that he is the presumptive nominee in the battle for the White House. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (AFP-Yonhap News)Romney thumped his main rival Rick Santorum in Maryland and the US capital Washington, and was expected to win a tighter but more important r

The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says.An artist's rendering of a satellite above the Earth. (AFP)Astronomers have so far found more than 750 so-called "exoplanets" orbiting distant stars, and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has identified 2,300 possible "candidates" that will require analysis and further

A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday. Oakland Fire officials work outside of Oikos University after a school shooting in Oakland, California, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)One L. Goh, 43, a South