You'd imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep count as they go through and you'll see a whole 21 plows in formation (and a couple of sand trucks) painstaking passing piles ...

The dozen trapped orcas swam free after changing weather conditions cracked the sea ice in northern Canada.

Police in India have arrested six men after they allegedly gang-raped a woman on a bus, just weeks after a similar attack shocked the nation.

Ever feel embarrassed when you don't know how to say a word? Don't be. Even the most fluent English speakers—and, ahem, political figures—stumble. Besides, pronunciations change over time. See if you've been mispronouncing these common ...

Preliminary data suggest that all those tweets, status updates and other digital distractions may actually stave off cognitive decline.

The Cairo-based photographer Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring and its repercussions since the revolution’s inception. “The past two years in Egyptian politics have been like a turbulent soap opera, playing out on the streets of Cairo fo ...

Neuroscientists have found that bilingual seniors were better at certain skills that can fade with age than their monolingual peers, which could help protect them against Alzheimer's disease. But the researchers don't know whether learning ...

In the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, free English classes will be offered to prostitutes to deal with the influx of 2014 World Cup tourists.

For every terrible tragedy history has handed us, there is an infinitely long list of disasters that we narrowly missed.

Where do I get this thing??

The most recent reunion story is of two Bosnian sisters, both in their eighties, who have been reunited after 72 years apart with the help of Facebook.

Lenovo has unveileed the IdeaCentre Horizon, a Windows 8 touch-screen PC that users can lay flat for shared experiences like games.

Call me a hipster, I don't care.

An Italian designer imagines the iPhone 6 as looking more like the iPod Nano.

Here are five key lessons have emerged for companies looking to sustain credibility, cultivate online communities and ultimately monetize users.

I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a paean to humanity’s inability to learn: This was the view out the International Space Station’s cupola on Jan. 1, 2013, around 09:37 UTC, looking nearly straight down the gullet of Italy’s Mt. V ...

Pinterest has just made its first acquisition – the two-and-a-half-year-old recipe discovery and sharing site Punchfork. Rather than operate it independently, Punchfork will continue to run shortly but then its site, API, and mobile apps will be shut ...

According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clubs far outnumbers the number of murders committed with a rifle.

Never mind nice. Charlie Ergen, the founder and chairman of Dish, gets results with an iron hand

The first people in America to say smoking was bad for your health were greeted with derision and called quacks.