Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Hayv Kahraman’s new paintings of female contortionists, women’s heads arch backward to meet their buttocks or thighs; sometimes ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Her family wanted her to be a doctor or a lawyer, but on discovering as a teenager she could contort her body in unusual ways, Nigerian Ifeoma Amazobi decided that would be how she ...

STAMFORD -- A five-girl Mongolian contortionist group twisted and bent their bodies on a tight, circular stage, giving a cheering lunchtime audience at Columbus Park a sneak peak into the Big Apple ...

One of the most jaw-dropping acts in “Metamorphosis,” this year’s Big Apple Circus show, occurs when contortionist Odbayasakh Dorjoo fits her entire body inside an impossibly small transparent box.

Louisiana-born Lance Centanni-Sachs started studying Mongolian contortion at the age of 23. Now at 29, he is preparing for his second trip to Mongolia as part of a documentary project to trace the ...

Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a headstand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet touching the ground. She ...

Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a headstand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet touching the ground. She ...

Jane Inc, aka Toronto musician Carlyn Bezic who has played in US Girls and other groups, released her excellent debut album last year and has just announced its follow-up, Faster Than I Can Take which ...

This article was written by CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey. It has to be deliberate. Somewhere, lurking in the darkened, ozone-infested bowels of a mega-corporation, a desperate collection of ...