Researchers say a pair of fossils unearthed in the hills north of Las Vegas belonged to a sabre-toothed cat.

Manny Pacquiao has said he will fight on despite pleas from his mother and wife to retire after his brutal defeat by Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez.

Rematch – and fifth fight – on the cards but hopes for Mayweather contest ended by brutal KO

He leads by two wins, but many believe the true score is 3-0 to Marquez

Senchenko should be a tricky opponent but victory tonight may earn Malignaggi rematch

It's the city that never stands still, but Simon Calder finds that the bright lights remain as warm as ever

A man who spent years modifying his face and body to look like a cat has died in an apparent suicide.

If there is a perfect exemplar of the oddball American boss, Howard Hughes must be it. Among the maverick aviator's directives at his company Hughes Aircraft, one stipulated the precise variety of seat covers for its fleet of Chevrolet cars, according to a former colleague tracked down by Fortune magazine in 2005.

A planet with four suns has been identified by two “armchair astronomers”.

You'd think it would end up in the pockets of Mr Bellagio, or Caesars Palace, but a Las Vegas cabbie who found $220 000 dollars in the back of his car did something remarkable with the cash - he gave it back to the punter who'd won it. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has details.

In TV interview, candidate's wife admits her fears if he should win White House race

Prince Harry's aides have announced they will not be making a formal complaint to the newspaper watchdog about the Sun's publication of nude photos of him.

There is a Facebook site called Seeing Japanese Tourists Taking Photos of the Most Pointless Things. It has almost half a million followers. This is an ever-widening circle of voyeuristic absurdity: vast numbers of people staring at photographs taken by other people who enjoy stalking Japanese tourists fixated by the need to register their own image of something which is of no obvious interest.