Early 2014 wasn’t so long ago, but it is increasingly difficult to remember a time when the name Isis was not in daily use. Barely a day goes by now without mention of its strategic brilliance or imagination-defying brutality. Yet Daesh, as the terro ...

What many have tacitly known for a long time was finally confirmed overnight when an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by Vocativ and The Daily Beast found that of the 60 or so ultra-rich Americans - aka the mega-donors - who have contribu ...

Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Vector Graphic became one of the best-known computer manufacturers of its era. It went public. Then the IBM PC changed everything.

Here’s a research finding that should surprise no one: The men most likely to harass women online… are the men most likely to have their own problems. That bit of validation comes courtesy Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the U ...

SciShow explains how smells can bring back early memories -- even memories that your brain didn’t know you had.

When José Antonio Sevilla and his three brothers learned that the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo had escaped from prison, they jumped out of their chairs and shouted with glee. “El Chapo got out! He’s the greatest of them all,” said Mr. ...

Fifa sponsor Coca-Cola has told world football's governing body that it wants an independent third-party commission to oversee reform of the crisis-hit organisation, the BBC has learned. On 9 July the American drinks giant formally requested tha ...

Drunk women have forced Scottish barmen to stop wearing kilts, as they can't keep their hands off their nether regions. Staff at Hootananny in Inverness have taken drastic action and gone back to wearing trousers to keep randy punters at bay.

Police officers in the United States have shot and killed at least 500 people so far in 2015, according to a Washington Post analysis. The 500th gun death at the hands of police officers came Thursday night in Boulder Creek, Calif., after officers we ...

Boston had a huge snowfall this year. The piles of snow are so large that they are still melting in July. Why? Physics is the answer.

A Coquitlam teenager has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for online pranks and threats that caused mayhem in communities as far away as Ontario, California and Florida.

If you take a look at a list of the fastest airplanes to ever grace the skies, many of them, for whatever reason, were primarily active in the 1960s. That may change soon enough. Military.com is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is looking to partner ...

A leaked European Commission report has supported Sir Tim Smith’s claims that apparently sexist comments about the “trouble with girls in science” were meant as a joke. The Nobel Prize laureate resigned from prestigious posts at University College Lo ...

One jihadist theoretician’s vision of “leaderless resistance” may help explain Islamic State strategy. Friday morning brought apparent terrorist attacks in countries on three different continents, in Tunisia, France, and Kuwait. “While investigations ...

According to information allegedly obtained by German news site WinFuture, some retail versions of Windows 10 will be sold on preloaded USB flash drives. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to confirm or deny the news, citing the company’s policy to no ...

PayPal's co-founder believes the company has stagnated and is doomed if it doesn't innovate.

A North Carolina man has been charged with an alleged plot to buy a semiautomatic rifle which he planned to use to kill Americans to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Justin Nojan Su ...

"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun." says Wayne LaPierre, the vice president of the National Rifle Association. That's become the kernel of the NRA's response to recent mass shooting tragedies ...