He was born into the ruthless North Korean dictatorship and could never quite escape it.

It could be the future of aviation, British eccentric genius on a grand scale, or possibly a bit of both. Secreted in a hangar a few miles south of Bedford sits the world’s largest aircraft: a hybrid of plane, balloon and hovercraft, an airship that ...

Tim Franco, a Paris-born photographer now based in Shanghai, has spent the past five-plus years documenting the intense change that urbanization has brought to the Chinese mega-city of Chongqing. Until 1997, Chongqing was a neglected city in the poor ...

Antibiotic resistance is poised to spread globally among bacteria frequently implicated in respiratory and urinary infections in hospital settings, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study shows th ...

Laws stating the Queen is the ruler of Ireland and that anyone selling horses outside greater Dublin shall be put to death are to be repealed, the Irish government has announced. The ancient orders and proclamations remain on the Irish statute books ...

The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red have included one slightly bizarre new feature to the upcoming game: Geralt's beard will grow over time. In a statement made to Eurogamer, the studio's communications chief Michael Platkow-Gilewski con ...

On March 14, queer sex site Crash Pad Series (NSFW) noticed something peculiar about Twitter’s search bar. “Anyone else notice that Twitter is starting to restrict the (top) search results for ‘porn’ keywords?” the website tweeted.

When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill, Facebook doesn’t want you to have to open another app like PayPal or Venmo to send them money. So today it unveiled a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger that lets you con ...

Female mice are attracted more strongly to the odour of healthy males than unhealthy males. This had already been shown in an earlier study by researchers from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology at the Vetmeduni Vienna. Now the team of behaviour ...

Even though millions of Americans are on the federal Do Not Call list to limit unwanted telemarketing calls, and even though it’s illegal for anyone to make a commercial prerecorded robocall to a consumer who hasn’t given their express consent to rec ...

A paramedic has been sacked after a series of offensive selfies with her and dying patients emerged online. Tatiana Kulikova, 25, posted one image and captioned it ‘another moron’ as someone lay dying next to her – who she should have been helping. S ...

Many people wish they could get drunk without having to spend a fortune. But Nick Hess only has to scoff some chips or potatoes for him to end up sloshed. Nick suffers from ‘auto-brewery syndrome’, a condition that means his stomach produces too much ...

With bend tests a distant memory, maybe it’s time to think about bringing back dunk tests. Apple has filed a patent titled “Methods for shielding electronic components from moisture,” which hints at a possible future of waterproofed Apple devices – i ...

The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds. Norway spruce and Scots pine samples have entered the vault inside a mountain on the Arctic a ...

Overuse of antibiotics made Americans more vulnerable to a strain of bacteria that caused nearly half a million infections and contributed to at least 29,000 deaths in a single year, U.S. public health officials warned in research published on Wednes ...

Public health researchers have analyzed soda consumption data in order to characterize people's exposure to a potentially carcinogenic byproduct of some types of caramel color. Caramel color is a common ingredient in colas and other dark soft dr ...

Amsterdam is looking for an investor to buy five buildings where sex workers can work collectively in their own prostitution business, a spokesman for the city's mayor says. Currently, prostitutes in the city work individually, renting the windo ...

Dutch national broadcaster NOS temporarily went off air after a man armed with a gun entered the building and demanded airtime. The RTL press agency said a building belonging to NOS in Hilversum was cleared on Thursday evening after the man walked in ...

“Justified” creator/showrunner Graham Yost has teamed with actor Noah Wyle for a limited series at FX examining the political battles in the U.S. over the decision to enter World War II. “Those Angry Days,” from Sony Pictures TV and FX Prods., will f ...

After months of waiting on addition Apple Watch details, Cook confirmed the device will ship sometime in April, later than industry expectations and rumors. The Apple chief noted everything is on schedule as seen by internal range estimates and the p ...