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Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself in prison, according to a media report by ABC News. Epstein, 66, had been accused of sex trafficking and was being held without bail in jail after being arrested on 6 July. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. According the New York Post, a gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7.30am and headed to New York Downtown hospital. A call for a reported cardiac arrest came in at 6....

The extreme heatwave that caused record temperatures last week across Western Europe was made more likely — and severe — by human-induced climate change. In France and the Netherlands, where temperatures rose above 40 °C, climate change made such a heat spell at least 10 times — and possibly 100 times — more likely to occur than a century or so ago. The findings come from a rapid analysis by scientists with the World Weather Attribution group that combined information from models and ob...

If elected president, Sen. Bernie Sanders will appoint commissioners to the FCC that will reinstate net neutrality rules, his campaign told the Daily Dot.

The Chilean Navy has been deployed after 40,000 liters of diesel were spilled into the sea near a remote island on the country's southern coast. The oil spill occurred on Saturday off Guarello Island on the Chilean side of Patagonia, the pristine southernmost region making up the tip of both Argentina and Chile.

A French inventor has failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered flyboard. Franky Zapata, a former jet-ski champion, had been hoping to cross from northern France to southern England in just 20 minutes. But the 40-year-old fell into the water halfway across as he tried to land on a boat to refuel.

An implant containing an HIV-prevention drug has been trialled in humans, in a step experts have hailed as an exciting development in curtailing infections. Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, with antiretroviral drugs has become a hot topic in recent years, with the drugs shown to substantially reduce the risk of contracting HIV from an HIV-positive partner. PrEP pills are already available through the NHS in Scotland to high-risk individuals, while trials are under way in England.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95.

We hope you're prepared for trouble, because you can now fight Team Rocket grunts in Pokémon Go. Niantic has started rolling out the update it promised a week ago, adding dark-colored PokéStops with the Team Rocket logo at various locations in the game. Just spin the stop to fight a grunt's shadow Pokémon and capture the poor, abandoned monster with a Poké ball after you beat its heartless trainer.

In an attempt to top last summer’s in-game rocket launch event, Fortnite’s Season 9 finale over the weekend featured a colossal kaiju monster vs. mech showdown. As spectators watched the two giants fight over key locations on the map, the one-time event ended with the mech driving a sword through the beast’s head in heroic fashion reminiscent of Voltron, Power Rangers, and Pacific Rim.

Space engineers have long considered lunar soil as locally available material for building outposts on the Moon, and now ESA researchers are considering it as a means to store energy. The Discovery & Preparation study by the agency and Azimut Space aims to determine how the lunar regolith can soak up solar energy during the day, then use it to generate electricity during the 14-day night and protect equipment against freezing.

Researchers say they’re working on a way to find gravitational waves from objects like primordial black holes and even dark matter. Their detector would have arms just three feet long.

Star Trek: Picard team is pulling back the veil on the upcoming series that returns Patrick Stewart to role he played for seven seasons on the 1990s syndicated hit series Star Trek: The Next Generation and in four feature films.

President Trump wields great power. Those who believe him to be a cruel, dishonest man who is glaringly unqualified to preside over the executive branch or U.S. foreign policy, should welcome challenges from the left, right, and center to his administration.

R. Kelly will remain in custody without bond as he faces child pornography charges stemming from a federal grand jury indictment in Illinois, a judge ruled Tuesday. The singer appeared in a Chicago federal courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the 13-count indictment.

Stocks rose as investors ended a record-setting week on a high note after dovish testimony from the top Federal Reserve official.

When most people think of Nintendo, they probably think of Super Mario and Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. They almost certainly aren't thinking of Nintendo's handheld consoles first and foremost, but maybe they should be. Those consoles — the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS — are the company's best sellers. In fact, the Nintendo DS is the best-selling Nintendo game console ever made, with over 150 million units sold.

Nintendo shares reached a nine-month high on Thursday after the platform holder announced plans to release a handheld-only Switch console later this year.