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Relive Mortal Kombat's flashy, bloody and controversial history in this retro game collection
Mortal Kombat is one of the most important video games ever released. Digital Eclipse's collection of the franchise's titles from the 1990s to early 2000s isn't a flawless victory, but it's still worth your time.
How British drag queen La Voix unwittingly provided the makeup for a $73M jewel heist
Before Chris Dennis, a.k.a. La Voix, found fame on RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. and the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, he worked as a makeup artist in London — where, in 2009, he unwittingly played a role in one of the biggest robberies in British history.
Arctic fossil is northern-most rhino species ever found
Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut. A new study identities it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got there.
Prunella Scales, sharp-tongued and long-suffering wife on Fawlty Towers, dead at 93
Duck Lake, Sask., residents launch campaign to protect town’s historic name
