Flyers’ fan will have a chance to experience Gritty’s Command Center during home games. The Flyers’ mascot gives Philly Live’s Sheila Watko a tour through what fans can expect.

Imagine lying in bed for weeks on end, eating and sleeping without getting up — and being paid handsomely for your trouble. What sounds like a dream job to some is actually the setup of a new experiment being conducted by NASA and the European Space Agency. The study, which kicked off Monday in Cologne, Germany, aims to assess the...

U2 lead singer Bono is reassuring fans that he’ll have his voice back for the rest of U2’s European tour after ending a concert in Germany Saturday night, which they are rescheduling. In a statement posted Sunday to U2’s website, Bono says that a doctor has ruled out anything serious related to his loss of voice during the performance in...

Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance. Whitson’s 665 days off the planet — 288 days on this mission alone — exceeds that of any other American and any other woman worldwide. She checked out of the International Space Station just hours earlier, along...

A passenger jet heading toward England was diverted to Germany on Saturday after three men on board were heard talking about terrorism, NBC News reported. Authorities conducted the controlled detonation of a backpack as a precaution, police said. Three men were detained after the easyJet flight from Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana to London Stansted Airport made an unscheduled stop in Cologne,...

Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

Police are searching for a man accused of stealing $2,300 worth of cologne from drug stores in Delaware.

Country music fan Chris Pratt tells Seth Meyers about the time he met Tim McGraw at the Oscars and was totally “starstruck.”

Oksana Chusovitina will compete at her seventh Olympics when she goes to Rio de Janeiro, becoming the oldest Olympic female gymnast in history at age 41. Chusovitina, back representing her native Uzbekistan, is an anachronism in an age when gymnasts enter major competitions at 16, and most are teenagers.