American radio host and actor Alex Jones says 'the official story doesn't add up' about 9/11. The belief is more common among younger people, with a quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds subscribing to the theory. One in seven people are convinced that the U.S. government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people. A... 

Convicted: Joseph Son played the role of Dr Evil's handyman 'Random Task' in the 1997 film 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'. An actor who appeared in the first Austin Powers film is facing a life sentence after being convicted of taking part in a brutal rape. Joseph Son, 40, was found guilty of raping and torturing a 20-year-old woman... 

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school’s president considers the National Anthem’s words to be too violent. The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned... 

Frail: Steve Jobs is helped into a car by a friend outside his home in California. Looking gaunt and frail, this is Steve Jobs seen for the first time since his surprise departure from Apple last week. This picture, taken outside the technology mogul’s California home, fuelled fears that Jobs was nearing the end in his eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The 56-year-old... 

Berkeley scientists this week discovered a new supernova, closer to Earth than any seen in the last 40 years, and believe they’ve spotted it within hours of its explosion. Astronomers are now scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and it’s likely to remain a major target for research for the next... 

Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera was photographed with this giant rat at the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there’s a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he speared the humongous rodent with a pitchfork at the Marcy... 

Less than an hour ago Apple’s Board of Directors announced that Steve Jobs resigned as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. His place will be taken by Jobs’ trusted Tim Cook, who up until now was Apple’s Chief Operating Officer. Steve Jobs’ stepping down as Apple’s CEO doesn’t mean he is quitting Apple. The Board of Directors... 

New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensational news comes as storm experts and politicians today laid out an apocalyptic warning of what will happen to Manhattan if Hurricane Irene makes a direct hit on New... 

President Obama went to the airwaves early Friday urging people to prepare for an apocalyptic nightmare that could strike the East Coast this weekend as Hurricane Irene encroaches across America. Issuing a warning on Friday morning, the president urged Americans to take heed of what he says will go down as a “historic hurricane” that will prove to be both extremely... 

Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The euro is breaking down and the US economy is suffering because of Europe’s debt crisis, according to former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. “The euro is breaking down and the reason we’re so sluggish is the level of uncertainty,” Greenspan said at the Innovation Nation Forum in Washington... 

A frightening foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over the past nearly 36 hours the vast intercontinental military tunnel complex constructed by the United States Air force over the past nearly 45 years was hit with two powerful nuclear explosions at its main terminuses in Colorado and Virginia used nearly... 

In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations as are used to shut them down, several activist gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell lemonade and were arrested. While the officers were technically on solid “legal” ground in shutting down the stand, they behaved... 

A .22 calibre bullet hitting but not breaking the "bulletproof" skin. Scientists working on a bio-art project to create bulletproof skin are using genetically engineered goat and silkworms to make a strong material for artificial tendons and ligaments. After their bio-art project for the creation of a bulletproof skin, Randy Lewis and his colleagues are planning... 

Final act of kindness: After seeing that the boy didn't have enough cash, Jeremy Henwood buys the meal for him. Police have released video from a McDonald’s security camera that show a police officer’s final act of kindness shortly before he was killed in a random act of violence. The video clip shows Officer Jeremy Henwood paying for a 10-year-old boy’s... 

President Barack Obama is closely matched against each of four possible Republican opponents when registered voters are asked whom they would support if the 2012 presidential election were held today. Mitt Romney leads Obama by two percentage points, 48% to 46%, Rick Perry and Obama are tied at 47%, and Obama edges out Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann by two and four points,...