The U.K. engineer plans to cut down on flight time lost by airlines to essential maintenance.

White House officials made an embarrassing blunder after appearing to suggest that Scotland isn't part of the United Kingdom. A tweet from the official Oval Office account said: "Today, @ realDonaldTrump and @ FLOTUS had tea with Her Majest ...

A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.

Despite the risks involved with investing in the still nascent cryptocurrency market, one chief security scientist believes that cryptocurrencies are still “absolutely a good thing” — they’ve just got some work to do.

President Trump is set to choose among four finalists and announce his Supreme Court nomination on Monday night.

First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-stop, and nighttime is often louder than daytime, because at night many inmates cry out, haunted by their trauma.

How do you rescue 12 boys and their football coach from deep inside a Thai cave? With drones, pumps, and 20-year-old DIY radios.

One board member described the police's justification for the raids as a "tenuous" link between the privacy group, a blog, and its email address.

There’s a moment in BBC2’s documentary Japan’s Secret Shame where Japanese journalist Shiori Ito returns for the first time in three years to a Tokyo hotel, where she alleges she was raped by a prominent TV broadcaster and reporter. “I can already fe ...

The 82-year-old had lived on the tropical island of Sotobanari since 1989, but was recently taken to hospital after being spotted looking weak

Automakers have called on the U.K. government to back down from its “red lines” in Brexit negotiations, or risk putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. In a statement released Tuesday, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) CEO ...

Axed engineers say IBM isn't always smart about artificial intelligence

Why Africa is the war on terror's new front line

Exhibitor touts new AMC Stubs A-List loyalty program as “sustainable”.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un said he will work with China to secure "true peace" on Wednesday, as Beijing seeks to take the driving seat in fast-paced diplomacy over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons. Kim made the promise to Chinese presid ...

Apple was Tuesday fined Aus$9 million (US$6.7 million) by an Australian court for making false claims about consumer rights when refusing to fix faulty iPhones and iPads previously repaired by a third party. Customers of the US tech giant had complai ...

A prominent doctor has spoken out against the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US border. saying it could have a 'devastating' long-term effect on their emotional well-being. Dr Col ...

Prosecutors will not pursue charges against two University of Central Florida students accused of gang rape. David Anthony Kirk, 20, and Jack Ryan Smith, 26, were accused of forcing a woman to have sex with them while she was too drunk to consent at ...

Private journals kept by the scientist and humanitarian icon show prejudiced attitudes towards the people he met while travelling in Asia

Retailers say returns are costing them a fortune. But in a new NPR/Marist poll, about 90 percent of online shoppers say they rarely or ever return orders. For many, it's not worth the hassle.