A new medical frontier is being explored by a doctor who wants to help people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies - face transplants.

In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit a Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world, according to The Associated Press.

A researcher finally tracks down an elusive white giraffe he's been seeking for 12-years, and he's got the pictures to prove it.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researcher, Charles Foley, first heard buzz about the rare white giraffe in 1993 while doing research on savanna elephants at Tanzania's Tarangire National Park.

A South African inventor is attempting to curtail rapes in a country with one of the highest rates of sexual assaults in the world with a new condom.

He unveiled a new "anti-rape" female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker's penis.

A woman branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo last year files a lawsuit Thursday against the utility company. Elizabeth C. Wallenburg, 27, fell off her skateboard and onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan, branding her with the company's logo.

She was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm, when she fell onto the manhole cover located over a steam pipe in the East Village on Aug. 11, 2004.

A rare, endangered turtle is saved from likely boiling in a Chinese soup pot after wildlife officers and a microchip worked to save it from an ugly fate.

Poachers nabbed the animal, belonging to a species known as "royal turtle" in Cambodia; its name inherited from the practice of feeding its eggs to kings, from a Cambodian river two months ago, and smuggled it across Vietnam's border on a motorbike, along with a horde of other common turtles.