Jamaican Usain Bolt captured hid third consecutive gold medal in the men's 200m Thursday with an impressive time of 19.78.

Flying all three bombers and training with allies provides the US and partners with the realistic training they need to provide credible deterrence.

The motive for the attack on Tuesday night "seems to be purely racial," Laura Wohl, an Olympia police spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview. Daniel Rowe, 32, was held in jail in lieu of bail of $500,000 after he was arrested for assau ...

Bolivian President Evo Morales opens a new military defence academy, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the US in the developing world.

Many science students might dread the more complex aspects of physics, but far removed from the mathematical equations that define how our physical world behaves, we each have an inner intuitive sense for how things will bounce, wobble, or fall.

The U.S. government halted a decade-long experiment to hire private companies to help manage the soaring prison population, sending shares of facility operators Corrections Corp. of America and GEO Group Inc. plunging.

The United States is looking at whether Russia has violated a U.N. Security Council resolution on military dealings with Tehran by using an Iranian air base to carry out strikes inside Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday.

An international human rights group says more than 17,000 detainees have died in Syrian government detention facilities since the start of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad. In a report released on Thursday, Amnesty International estim ...

Here's a bad sign for Google's still-nascent Glass project from Glass-evangelist Robert Scoble

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg topped the list of US philanthropists who opened their cheque books to make big donations in 2013, with his gift of almost $1 billion to a Silicon Valley charity.

As biotech giant pays huge sums for data analysis about farms, many are terrified about how it might be harnessed

When Jon M. Chu first got on Justin Bieber's tour bus in 2010, he was just a promising director who cut his teeth on two Step Up films and a Hulu-exclusive dance series called The LXD. But then Bieber happened, and Chu became something a little ...

The PlayStation 4 is a hit. While there are no official figures from Sony about holiday sales, early reports have the console selling 2-to-1 over competitor Xbox One. And with the buzz of a new console launch out of the way, that means it's time ...

This year, jolly old St. Nicholas has been white, black, Jewish, and even a penguin. But what's the real story?

Thirty five-year-old Taryn Brumfitt, on a global “quest to redefine and rewrite the ideals of beauty,” has been getting a lot of attention for her response to a viral photo that asked mothers “What’s your excuse?” for not being toned after childbirth ...

From smartphones to smart homes, technology is around us every second, transforming our lives in ways we’re only beginning to understand

It’s hard to believe, but the devices are totally functional, if a little on the weak side. “It does sound quite good considering the simplicity of the device; of course it’s not as clear as a regular speaker, the sound is lower and low frequencies d ...

Johnny Orris, 86, reportedly choked on a bite of steak and died at a Nevada restaurant just hours before he was set to sleep with two hookers at the famed Bunny Ranch — a prize he won as part of a Howard Stern contest.

Google’s original map was rudimentary, essentially a digitized road atlas. Like the maps from Microsoft and Yahoo, it used licensed data, and areas outside the United States and Europe were represented as blue emptiness. Google’s innovation was the w ...

Since about 2004 newspapers have done what they think is the future. That gap has been filled by websites. To that end, millions have been spent on swanky looking sites with complex home pages and stylised channel pages.