One ill-fated 1982 phone call jump-started the NFL's longest run of ineptitude. The bizarre and calamitous story of Booker Reese only got worse from there

Kim Dotcom, the founder of closed file-sharing site Megaupload, has been on the road to promote his newly-formed political party in New Zealand. His Internet Party, which wants to bring internet freedom to the agenda, has 1,000 members.

Renting your place on Airbnb might help you pay your rent, but it’s making New York City — and San Francisco, Montreal, Berlin and other popular destinations — even less affordable than they already are. The young and mobile love Airbnb. It’s a step ...

Hollywood leading man George Clooney, who has said he was not suited for marriage, is engaged to British lawyer Amal Alamuddin, according to media reports on Saturday. Alamuddin, 36, was spotted last week wearing a large ring at a Los Angeles restaur ...

A new paper from University of Chicago PhD candidate Alison Rauh finds that black immigrants tend to be more successful than black Americans. They out-earn black natives and are more likely to be employed. This is not surprising; white immigrant grou ...

The former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova has died of throat cancer at the age of 45. The club's official Twitter feed tweeted: "The FC Barcelona is in immense mourning. Tito Vilanova has died at the age of 45. May he rest in peace."

An earthquake with a magnitude 7.8 was recorded off Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, at a depth of six miles, hit southwest of Panguna. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami warning was in effect f ...

An Atlantic City casino is suing a big-time gambler, claiming he won $9.6 million in a card-cheating scheme in baccarat. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Phillip Ivey Jr., considered one of the best poker pla ...

The night the police came for Robert Aaron, he was at home in the Mott Street apartment where he has lived for the last quarter century, making a coconut pudding called tembleque. Mr. Aaron, whose legal name is Robert Aaron Vineberg, is a 57-year-old ...

Heartbleed, the enormous security bug that could affect up to two-thirds of the internet, has left more than 500,000 websites exposed to attackers. And while many are worried their information was left vulnerable to criminal hackers, one security adv ...

With its own personal assistant Cortana coming, Microsoft has lifted the lid on its ambition to bring the Windows Phone experience to the dashboard regardless of whether it's powered by Windows, Linux or Android.

Is the home game console market in trouble? Some analysts certainly think so. Despite reports of record-breaking sales for both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, some industry doomsayers are forecasting the end of the home console as we know it, citing ...

A landlord demanding rent arrears threatened tenants and German police with a whirring chainsaw, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

The biggest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived begins its roll-out on Thursday with the launch of a radar satellite from French Guiana. The EU's Sentinel-1a spacecraft will be followed into orbit by a fleet of other satellites in t ...

South Korean military authorities are investigating a drone that crashed on an island near the disputed sea border with North Korea, the defense ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. A local resident found the drone on Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow S ...

Tesla Motors is currently aiming to have a self-driving, autonomous car built within the next three years, according to the famous Tesla CEO Elon Musk. If that goal is met, that means that Tesla will beat its rivals — Mercedes-Benz and Nissan — to th ...

The U.S. should increase its military presence in Poland and in other NATO members in central and eastern Europe in light of the Ukraine crisis, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on Saturday. Siemoniak said Washington was open towards the ...

China said it will invest more than 1 trillion yuan ($162 billion) redeveloping shantytowns this year as the government detailed how it will boost its urban population to support growth.

Crimeans are voting in a referendum that will decide whether the Black Sea peninsula leaves Ukraine and becomes part of Russia. The referendum is regarded as illegal by Ukraine and its Western allies, but is being backed by Moscow, which has vetoed a ...

In today's world, there's one area of technology that can almost never be fast enough: the wireless networks that power our mobile devices. Despite decades of advancements, we still lose signal when walking around in a big city like New Yor ...