Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

A 45-year-old construction worker went to the emergency department for his right shoulder, which was extremely swollen and becoming progressively more painful. Doctors took an X-ray to try to see…

How a man's daily routine of ordering gumbo wound up saving his life

At the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida, a customer consistently ordered a cup of gumbo for lunch and for dinner for 10 years. When he didn’t show up one…

Covert DNA sample from Colorado man's trash revives 44-year-old Texas murder case: report

A 79-year-old Colorado man has been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a Texas flight attendant after investigators compared DNA recovered from his trash with blood found on the…

One man's hunger strike changed India's map. Can it still change politics?

Why hunger strikes still shape Indian politics, from Gandhi to Sonam Wangchuk.

Ditching his 'Whizzinator' in a patrol car was Florida man's second bad decision of day

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has accused a Florida man of coming up with a plan to beat his court-ordered drug test. Executing what on paper might look like a…

At a dying man’s bedside, I see something much rarer than grief: the courage to include the young | Ranjana Srivastava

If we spare youth the universal reality of death, we postpone to middle age the struggle to reconcile with it I am not especially superstitious but it tends to be…

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers

Women make up a miniscule 3% of construction workers in Kenya. But a nonprofit group is offering them a way to get into the game … and to get ahead.…