UK airlines have warned passengers they may not be able to fly after Brexit and that flights could be cancelled without compensation. British airlines are drawing up contingency plans, amid Brexit talks, which could see passengers lose consumer rights held under EU law, including their right to compensation if flights are grounded.

New Swedish research on Viking funeral clothes raises questions about Islam's influence in Scandinavia.

BEN Affleck has offered an extraordinary apology after a former MTV host-turned-actress claimed he groped her breasts on television. Actress and TV host Hilarie Burton was just 21 when she says she was groped by Affleck during an interview on MTV's TRL. The incident has shone a light on Affleck's other past bad behaviour - including a different, bizarre 2004 interview that saw Affleck encouraging another interviewer to show him her breasts.

India Landry, a Windfern High School senior, says she was in the principal’s office on Monday when the pledge came over the intercom. She says the principal told her to stand, but she refused. “And then the pledge came on, and they both stood, and then I didn’t,” Landry said. “[The principal] asked me to, and I said I wouldn’t. And then she said ‘Well, you’re kicked out of here.’ ”

Crowdfunding has traditionally been a platform where the little guys go to get a leg up. Creators get the chance to share their ideas, and we’re able to do something positive if we like what we see. We chip in, take a little leap of faith, and maybe see something realised that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible. But, what about when a large corporation steps in to get a slice?

Inti Creates announced that Blaster Master Zero, the remake of the 1988 NES game Blaster Master, has now surpassed 110,000 in worldwide downloads on Nintendo Switch and 3DS. In celebration of the new milestone, the company shared the above image illustrated by Yuji Natsume who worked as an artist for Blaster Master Zero alongside Shin Nakamura.

Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those who grew up in two-parent families — and genetic factors are the primary explanation, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden.

When a young Carl Sagan visited St. Thomas’ Dolphin Point laboratory in 1964, he likely didn’t realize how controversial the setting would become. Sagan belonged to a secretive group called “The Order of the Dolphin” — which, despite its name, focused on searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Eyleen Gonzalez lost everything in her home after Hurricane Maria. She has no running water. No electricity. Barely any cell service to communicate with family. Her house is "destroyed." Her only valuable possession left is her puppy, Lena. But for just a moment on Saturday, Gonzalez forgot about life, its worries and Puerto Rico's long road ahead. "Daddy Yankee! Oh my God!" she said, beaming with a smile. "It's exciting to see and believe that he's helpin...

The mayor of San Juan is begging for help from federal officials as Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricane Maria. Meanwhile, from his New Jersey golf club, President Donald Trump responded by starting a feud with her on Twitter.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, says he has been arrested again outside his Moscow home after he left to attend a pre-election rally with supporters. Mr Navalny tweeted that he had been "detained and was being taken somewhere", but that he did not know where. Russia will hold a presidential election in March which incumbent Vladimir Putin is widely expected to contest.

A judge who spared an aspiring Oxford University student from jail after she stabbed her boyfriend is being investigated. Ian Pringle QC gave promising heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward a suspended sentence for attacking her then partner in a drunken assault. Woodward, 24, stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife but in an unusual move the judge spared her jail describing her as an “extraordinarily able young lady”, whose talents meant that a prison sentence woul...

Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia announced that the online services for Gravity Rush 2 will shut down on January 19, 2018 at 2:00pm JST.

Data is the new oil, or so the saying goes. So why are we giving it away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results? It’s an important question to ask in a world where the accumulation and scraping of data is worth billions of dollars — and even a money-losing company with enough data about its users can be worth well into the eight-figure region.

When President Donald Trump criticized athletes who refuse to rise for the national anthem on Friday, it kicked of a flurry of debate from the West Wing to the NFL.

What are lawyers good for? Pouring lemon juice on the open wounds of an MMO community desperately trying to hold on to the remnant of their closed game, apparently. The closure of at least one Asheron’s Call emulator earlier this month was confirmed this week to be what many assumed: a cease-and-desist letter from Warner Bros. One of the main forces behind the emulator projects, a player named Pea, posted an account stating how he initially wrote to WB about the game’s closure and his growin...

Only recently did I work up the nerve to go to a diner or coffee shop alone. Even now, when I do, I'll sit there hunched over my sandwich or cup of tea and cast furtive glances at all the twosomes around me, knowing exactly what they're thinking: What. A. Loser. She can't even find someone to keep her company for half an hour?