China has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2060, responding to the need to drastically bring down its overwhelming share of global carbon emissions. Experts say it's also critical for the communist party's survival.

The big lesson of 2020 is that everything keeps getting more dishonest.

An advanced artificial intelligence was able to post to Reddit and interact with other users for more than a week before anyone realised it was a bot. The AI posed as a human user under the username ‘thegentlemetre’, posting to Q&A forums AskReddit and AskScience on subjects ranging from suicide to “hot milfs”. Some of the posts received hundreds of upvotes, including one about homeless people living in elevator shafts.

Campaigners say sale of drugs should be nationalised to undermine organised crime

Despite claiming that it has ‘zero cases of COVID-19,’ North Korea demanded its people stay inside for fear that yellow dust traveling through the air from China could carry the “malignant virus” into the country.

President Trump on Thursday posted his full interview with "60 Minutes" ahead of its scheduled air time in an apparent attempt to undercut the news program after he walked out on the interview, bristling at questioning from jo

Russia has granted U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights, his lawyer said on Thursday, a step towards Russian citizenship if he wants it.

What the leader of the free world watches for fun, from “Birth of a Nation” to “Finding Dory”

Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has engaged himself with conquering the solar system, with his first mission being Mars. The South African-born billionaire may have to compete with aliens when occupying a planet, but he doesn’t think so.

Small glands are located at base of the skull, meaning they had gone undetected. Their discovery could have serious implications for radiation therapy...

It has been almost 10 months since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China. Since then, countries around the world have been working tirelessly to try and contain the virus that has killed over one million people and infected over 40 million worldwide to date, according the Johns Hopkins University.

In a Tuesday blog post, TikTok has announced a plan to remove hateful posts on the video-based social media platform. The company will start cracking down even more on anti-LGBTQ+ content, white supremacist and Nazi content, and videos that spread falsehoods about Jewish people, Muslims, and other minority groups.

The renowned scientist has a long history of controversial commentary on not only race, but issues spanning gender, religion and sexuality

Poland has some of Europe's strictest laws, but the constitutional court tightens them still further.

James Randi, a magician and illusionist known as “The Amazing Randi” as well as a scientific investigator who debunked paranormal and occult phenomena through his organization the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, has died. He was 92.The James Randi Foundation announced his passing in a tweet, saying

It was a blockbuster story. A respected Chinese virologist appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News in mid-September to share the results of her just-completed report. The conclusion: The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was likely engineered in a Chinese lab. On Carlson's show, she claimed it was intentionally released into the world.

In recent years prominent pundits including Steven Pinker, Jordan Peterson and Bill Gates have invoked the progress in global life expectancies to defend capitalism against a growing tide of critics. Certainly there’s a lot to celebrate on this front. After all, average human life expectancy has improved a great deal.

According to President Trump speaking at a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, “nobody gets hacked.” You don’t need someone who covers security day in and day out to call bullshit on this one. “Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password,” Trump said, referencing the recent suspension of...

For more than a century, people were taken from their homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part of colonial history played an important part in the development of modern racism.