With Ukraine on the verge of civil war, Yulia Timoshenko secured a get-out-of-jail-free card, from a very unlikely source. Her rival, Inna Bohoslovska, introduced a bill dismissing corruption charges brought against her in 2011. The revolt against Pr ...

The president of an online newspaper in South Korea allegedly ordered editors to take down an article about the anti-Samsung film Another Promise, then sent apologetic text messages intended for Samsung executives who had apparently complained about ...

Neanderthals died out long ago, but their genes live on in us. Scientists studying human chromosomes say they've discovered a surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA in our genes. And these aren't just random fragments; they help shape what we ...

Facebook on Thursday announced a new feature that lets users choose a custom gender pronoun for how they want to be referred to on the social network. Until Thursday, users were able to select only male or female as their gender designation. Facebook ...

The same bug that has plagued several of the biggest players in the Bitcoin economy may have just bitten the Silk Road. On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site’s administrators posted a long announcement to the Si ...

President Barack Obama today refused to say whether France had overtaken Britain as America's closest ally, pleading he could no more pick between them than he could between his two daughters. Speaking during a visit to the White House by Franço ...

Researchers say that a new vulnerability spotted on Snapchat can make it a hacker's tool for launching DOS-type attacks on handsets. Jaime Sanchez, a cyber-security consultant who works for Telefonica, said that he and another researcher have fo ...

Six weeks is all it took for the Liverpool foursome to go from unknowns to the biggest pop stars in the USA. Here's an exhaustive look at how it happened

Eight more Fukushima children have been confirmed as having thyroid gland cancer following the prefecture’s checkups, a local panel of experts said Friday, ruling out any link to the Tepco triple-meltdown calamity.

The hotel, which is meant to house hundreds of journalists covering the games, is really a sprawling complex of apartment blocks that serve as the one of the main venues for media at the 2014 Winter Olympics. With numbered blocks and room fixtures st ...

An ingestible pill camera to help screen for polyps and early signs of colon cancer has been approved for use in the U.S. Given Imaging Ltd.'s PillCam Colon was originally touted as an alternative to traditional colonoscopy procedures, but the c ...

Andrew Bird says he only wants to drive on the 407 ETR, not own a section of it. The 45-year-old engineer technologist had the shock of his life in December when he opened a letter from a collection agency demanding $43,000 for tolls, interest charge ...

A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.

Tens of thousands of people have marched to Spain's parliament to protest against the government's new law that aims to restrict abortion, allowing the practice only in cases of rape or serious risk to health. Saturday's rally in Madri ...

The suspicious white powdery substance delivered to at least six hotels just miles from MetLife Stadium is believed to be cornstarch, officials said.

The voice of a killer may have been captured in a recorded 911 call that was made from a cell phone that belonged to an inmate that later died. The victim, Christopher Glass, a Lawton GEO prison inmate was found lying on his jail cell floor last wee ...

Ukrainian riot police have allegedly beaten up a busload of government supporters, after mistaking them for opposition activists.

Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has already earned five Academy Award nominations for its depiction of the over-the-top lifestyle led by corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. However, a little attention ought ...

Taliban gunmen killed three men working for a private television station in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Friday, the station and the Islamist militant group said. Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead a technician, guard and driver working f ...

A Massachusetts man has been jailed for sending an email invitation to his ex-girlfriend to join Google+, despite a restraining order against him. Police arrested Thomas Gagnon after his ex-girlfriend complained against him for violating the restrain ...