PICHER, Okla. – A businessman who refused to leave the Oklahoma ghost town of Picher has died. The Thomas Funeral Home confirmed Gary Linderman’s death. According to an obituary on its website, he died Saturday at age 60 after a sudden illness. Linderman ran the Ole Miner Pharmacy, the last …

LONDON – A Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who said there was “trouble with girls” working in laboratories has resigned from his honorary post at University College London. Tim Hunt apologized for his remarks at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea but had stood by his assertion that …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s prime minster says the government will consider “all options,” including a physical barrier on the southern border with Serbia, to stem the increased flow of migrants. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday on state radio that “migration is dangerous” and that the government will hear the …

A California couple is hoping to retroactively claim the state record for birth weight for their son – who weighed more than 16 pounds when he was born in August, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Sosefina Tagalu and Pavasio Otuhiva, of Daly City, Calif., knew their baby was large. But …

BERLIN – The United Nations’ human rights chief is urging European nations to accept more refugees and to do more to fight prejudice and discrimination against migrants once they arrive. Zeid Raad al-Hussein told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that he was “shocked and shamed by …

UNITED NATIONS – A high-level panel urged a major overhaul of U.N. peacekeeping operations Tuesday that would make political solutions the paramount goal, speed up deployment of peacekeepers, and require the naming and shaming of countries whose troops commit acts of sexual abuse. The panel delivered its report to U.N. …

JUBA, South Sudan – At least 129 children were killed, with boys castrated and girls raped, during a government offensive against rebels last month in South Sudan, according to the U.N. children’s agency. South Sudanese military spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, on Thursday questioned the credibility of the report, saying it …

Greece seems to have edged back from the financial abyss…again. On the eve of a large tranche of debt coming due Wednesday, the European Union has handed over the equivalent of 18 million dollars in bail-out money. Plus IMF help should tide over the troubled Greek government for now. “The …

As the United Nations meets for the umpteenth time this week — this time in Cancun, Mexico — in its ongoing effort to confront climate change, there is a growing chorus from both sides of the global warming debate that the world body’s efforts have failed and that it is …

Alien life has been among us all along, according to new biological findings announced by NASA Thursday. Research conducted by biochemist Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon from the U.S. Geological Survey has turned the quest for alien life on its ear, suggesting that phosphorous, carbon, and the other fundamental elements found in …