Lawmakers pass anticipated legislation that reduces possession of small quantities to a petty offence and paves way for medical cannabis industry.

Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine and Iraq War vet struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, was found guilty of capital murder Tuesday night in the shooting deaths of American Sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America's wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter initiative aimed at clearing away 40 years of conflicting laws and court rulings.

Microsoft just took a major step towards rooting out the Superfish adware, which exposed Lenovo users to man-in-the-middle attacks. Researchers are reporting that Windows Defender, Microsoft's onboard anti-virus software, is now actively removin ...

When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable wage for most workers in his famine-stricken country, where most people are not allowed to travel abroad. But f ...

Researchers say that they have developed an HIV treatment capable of blocking infection in monkeys for more than 40 weeks after being administered.

It looks like Lenovo has been installing adware onto new consumer computers from the company that activates when taken out of the box for the first time. The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Lenovo’s consumer laptops ou ...

A cellphone video circulating online shows a plainclothes Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy repeatedly punching a high school student in the face as he attempts to take him into custody.

The Highline Meeting on Monte Piana is the biggest Slackline festival in Italy. More info and pics at the sources I included.

By Amila Omerika.

It looks like a toy attachment for a gun, but this new device is intended to give suspects a chance to live if shot.

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Fallon may have taken NBC's Tonight Show to Phoenix and Los Angeles – but Conan's in Cuba. Conan O’Brien and a small crew flew to Havana Thursday and have spent the weekend filming for his TBS late-night show’s March 4 epis ...

Kirchner is being investigated over an alleged cover-up of Iran's role in the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires.

According to several sources, many people are losing their jobs at Yahoo today. Management is describing the firings as part of an organizational realignment, or restructuring, and not as a general layoff.

Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of large parts of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials said. Al-Baghdadi, about 85 km (50 miles) northwest of Ramadi i ...

Police have named the victims as 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. Officers were called to reports of gunshots at 5.11pm at an apartment block largely housing academ ...

As American Sniper continues to spark controversy across the world, a real-life courtroom drama that picks up where the movie ends began in a small Texas town on Wednesday – cowboy hats, weeping widows and all.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large Yemeni army base during a dawn attack Thursday, prompting airstrikes from government forces just hours later. The raid comes as the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war. Ansar al ...

The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France emerged from marathon talks in Belarus Thursday with a cease-fire deal aimed at ending months of fighting that has killed thousands in eastern Ukraine.