A physicist slams hype about multiverses, string theory, and quantum computers and calls for more diversity in his field

How could a U.S. citizen die in an Egyptian prison when top U.S. officials championed his cause?

A conscientious cosmologist rejects Einstein’s notion that time is an illusion and the future is set

The UN says a government advance on rebel-held Idlib has had

General assembly’s vote in favour of resolution also calls on Myanmar to urgently combat incitement of hatred

It's one of the most devastating aspects of Venezuela's political and economic turmoil: the collapse of the public health system. Venezuela suffers from a severe shortage of medication, while many do…

Government reportedly uses ToTok to track conversations, locations and other data of those who install the app

Israeli-based group uses Facebook to spread disinformation to more than a million followers around the world, singling out Muslim US congresswomen

“And for what? Clickbait headlines, YouTube views?” former video editor Josh Owens writes in New York Times essay

Group’s open letter calls for Wikileaks founder to be moved from London high-security jail to hospital

Russian who filmed prisoner being tortured to death worked for firm with links to Kremlin

NPR's Scott Simon explains what China's treatment of Muslim Uighurs has to do with American consumers.

Seven hundred pages of leaked documents reveal how Iranian spies have infiltrated every aspect of Iraqi political life.

Over 100 students staged a walkout during Israeli envoy Dani Dayan's talk at Harvard ...

European court of justice says origin must be identified in decision likely to anger Israel

“I knew that I was myself. And that something really bad had happened.”

A young Palestinian man who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an incident caught on video last year says the footage shows just a small part of what was a horrifying day for him. Speaking to The Associated Press after the video emerged last ...

A group of independent UN human rights experts said on Friday that there was “credible evidence” that inadequate prison conditions in which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was held may have led “directly” to his death in June, and thousands o ...

Peter Handke has downplayed Serb atrocities in Bosnia and attended the funeral of strongman Slobodan Miloševic. The Nobel judges ignored it.

A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.