A new iOS app called FireChat is blowing up in the App Store. But it’s not the app itself that’s causing such a stir, it’s the underlying networking technology it taps into. The idea behind FireChat is simple. It’s a chatting app. After registering w ...

We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.

Most average, everyday YouTube viewers are only able to flag videos for inappropriate content on an individual basis. But it turns out a growing group of "super flaggers" receive a powerful bonus privilege: they're able to flag up to 2 ...

President Obama has called Vladimir Putin “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” putting on an unsmiling, tough-guy “shtick.” Hillary Clinton just compared the Russian president to Hitler. The State Department says Putin’s reasoning on Ukraine ...

With its fish-market-perfumed air, waste-transfer stations and a moored prison barge visible just off its coast, the industrial peninsula of Hunts Point in the Bronx has long been somewhat of an indifferent haven for the city’s topless bars and pole ...

France’s foreign minister called on Sunday for preparations to be suspended for the upcoming G8 summit in Sochi over Russia’s “military escalation” in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.

Last week the BBC again hoaxed millions. It was a performance that in time will come to rank up there with the spaghetti harvest as an epic example of the suggestibility of the human mind. But this time, far from being the instigator of the spoof, th ...

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Egypt's government resigned on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife.

Mafia killings don't typically shock Italians -- as disturbing as the occasional hit may be, the tragedy usually affects only friends and families of the victims. But a coldblooded, point-blank killing this month in southern Italy has a nation g ...

Russia's anti-gay laws have been a major focus in the lead-up to the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, and during his address at today's opening ceremony IOC president Thomas Bach made a strong statement against "any form of discriminatio ...

Two explosions have been heard in the space of two minutes in a busy district near Egypt's capital. Al Jazeera sources, quoting the security directorate, said the two blasts occurred in Giza and went off on Giza Bridge near where Central Securit ...

A young Kiwi researcher has discovered a link between fatty tissue and breast cancer that could have a worldwide impact, The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation says. Hannah Palmer, 22, spent her summer studying how a protein in fatty tissue can mak ...

It's hard to imagine a situation in which Mark Zuckerberg would sell his stake in Facebook. It's even more difficult to imagine him fleeing from the police, battling takeover attempts from billionaires, or tossing $100 bills from his office ...

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Forget Kim Jong Un—lately, the bigwigs in Beijing have been heaping praise on Aleksandr Lukashenko, the man Condoleezza Rice once nicknamed “Europe’s last dictator.”

Cat Cafes are probably one of the coolest things about living in Japan!

Daft Punk didn't have to stay up all night to get lucky. The helmet-clad French pop duo won five Grammy Awards on Sunday night.

On a rainy afternoon last week, I wandered into a giant cave in the middle of New York's Lower East Side. Actually, it's a recording studio called 'the Space,' but between its decayed unfinished brick walls, underneath its 60 foot ...

A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer's IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situati ...