Malam Fatori (Nigeria) (AFP) - The black letters crudely painted on a wall at the entrance to the devastated town of Malam Fatori, in northeast Nigeria, spell out "God is great" -- a calling card from the evicted Boko Haram fighters.

Hayao Miyazaki has kept busy since his supposed retirement, but his newest project is as historical as it is new. On May 30, the Mitaka no Mori Ghibli Museum will open a new exhibit featuring artwork by Miyazaki inspired by Ghost Tower, a 1939 mystery ...

Ever since E.T. flew across the sky on a bicycle, aliens and UFOs have become a staple of American daydreams. Some say they fly around in spaceships, looking for humans to kidnap and probe. Others believe they're just satellites or military planes that ...

Kansas is close to telling poor families by law that they can't use cash assistance from the state to visit swimming pools, get tattoos or consult with psychics among a list of other things, leading critics to focus on whether tighter rules for social ...

In fact, Russell once was a clinical hypnotist but soon discovered he loved performing. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, clinical hypnosis can be used to address psychological and physical problems, including phobias, anxiety ...

ghost Ayutthaya – A house owner told police her house was haunted by her dead husband and that a burglar fled after encountering the ghost. Police could only establish that the burglar left her house in a hurry, leaving many valuables behind ...

An abortion kids book called “Sister Apple, Sister Pig” is intended for parents to explain to their children why a sibling had to be aborted. The abortion children's book has already caused controversy since it calls the aborted baby sister a “happy ghost.

I was too in love with heavy metal, cryptozoology, and mythology to ever fully turn my life over to a church. But even more than that I was unable to reconcile how one religious path could be “the only way.” That's just never made sense to me, and ...

If you're the U.S. military, you build a robotic ghost ship to follow them around the high seas. In 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel ...

But Time's time-warp disconnect from the culture it serves was evident in the opening paragraph of the lead story: “When the subject of extraterrestrials comes up in polite conversation, any scientist whose lonely life's work is listening for distant ...

Hopping on BJ The Chicago Kid and ScHoolboy Q's “It's True” instrumental, P flexes his lyrical muscles and spits some more truth for his fans to digest. Serving as the follow up to his "Ghost Dance" visual, “True Ghost” is another strong addition to P ...

Those markings blend in during the day with the white bodies but shine brightly at night. The style is slowly being added to police department fleets across Moore County. Aberdeen's patrol fleet currently has one "ghost car." Southern Pines has one ...

Such a large corpus -- with its text, pictures, videos and sounds," Shostak said in the New York Times, "would allow clever extraterrestrials to decipher much about our society, and even formulate questions that could be answered with the material in ...

psyscrolr is a clever play on words for what the game is about: a psychic 2D side scroller. You play as a young man who has abilities unlike any other human, and he is kicked out of the town he lives in and shunned for having these abilities. You fall ...

In late March, the band Shinyribs from Austin, Texas, played at a private house party in an upscale North Tallahassee neighborhood. Somehow I snagged an invitation. Shinyribs' is the neo-soul brainchild of Kevin Russell, who is perhaps best known as ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is close to telling poor families by law that they can't use cash assistance from the state to visit swimming pools, get tattoos or consult with psychics among a list of other things, leading critics to focus on whether ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Nourishing our minds, bodies and souls is so important to our overall well-being. That idea is how a new cooking class came about. WCCO's Jamie Yuccas and Kim Johnson went to Kitchen in the Market at the Midtown Global ...

Louis CK and Jerry Seinfeld are in an orange Fiat Jolly, starring in an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. They're on the West Side Highway in New York City driving a tiny antique car with rattan seats and no doors, talking about whether they ...

She discovered the ghostly structure in the online Galaxy Zoo, a project enlisting the public's help to classify more than a million galaxies catalogued in the Sloan DigitalSky Survey (SDSS). The bizarre feature was dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp (Dutch for ...