Current and former employees describe how incentive systems at call centres for Rogers, Fido and Bell mean agents who decrease service plans suffer penalties, leading to a culture of "doing as little as possible" for the customer.

A sensational Bloomberg story about a major hardware hack was swiftly denied. But the journalists aren’t backing down

As part of a big Xbox update, Microsoft just released the Xbox Skill for Cortana and Alexa which allows you to navigate your Xbox One console using your voice and a Cortana or Amazon Alexa-enabled device, such as the Echo Dot. To celebrate the announ ...

Grief-stricken after his daughter’s death, the chief of Piplantri village declared that every newborn girl would have a tree planted in her honour. In the process, he sowed the seeds of cultural, environmental and political revolution. Shyam Sunder P ...

Many of us are familiar with the idea of stripping to our pants, opening a beer and watching TV. But in Finland ‘Pantsdrunk’ has been elevated to an official activity

Facebook knows us well enough to know the truth: We don’t care enough about our privacy to stop using it.

Scientists have previously hypothesized that spots are conferred at random or that they are influenced by environmental factors.

The wonders of modern medicine and nutrition make it easy to believe we enjoy longer lives than at any time in human history, but we may not be that special after all.

A new study found that artificial sweeteners commonly found in low-sugar foods can harm the gut microbial system. US News & World Report has the story.

For years, Kathleen McLaughlin smuggled American plasma every time she entered China, home to the world’s largest and deadliest blood debacle. She had no other choice

Vietnam has seized around a tonne of pangolin scales and ivory hidden inside airline cargo packages, state media reported, as the country struggles to rein in wildlife smuggling across its borders. Both the ivory and pangolin trade have been banned i ...

Humanity is producing so much data every single minute that we either need to slow down, or scientists need to crack the problem of finding better ways of storing that data ASAP.

Sarcopenia, a decline in skeletal muscle in older people, contributes to loss of independence.

Over the past week, people in Australia have started noticing needles hidden in fruit: first in strawberries, and now in an apple and a bananas. Two people who accidentally ate the needles had to go to hospital, and the trend has thrown the Australia ...

Owner avoids having to close Bookends in Cardigan by raffling it off to customers who spent more than £20

People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.

Emmanuel Macron also recognises role of state in 1957 death of dissident Maurice Audin

One in five French people can't afford three meals a day or eat healthily, a new report reveals, as the government gets set to present its long-awaited poverty plan on Thursday. The survey, carried out by the Secours Populaire (French Popular Re ...

British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People.