A leading US think-tank says it has detected signs that Pyongyang is getting ready to carry out a threatened test, a response to a UN call for Kim Jong-un to be referred to the International Criminal Court.

Why have so many of my famous video blogging peers become sexual predators?

Ex-Soviet leader backs Putin over Ukraine as Germany celebrates the 25th anniversary of a seminal moment in European history

Hundreds of thousands of objects are orbiting in high-velocity swarms around the Earth. Many of these, in the event of a collision, could ignite catastrophic accidents junking the world's orbital telecommunications networks.

As U.S. banks and retailers are barreling toward a 2015 deadline to replace magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards with more secure cards that come embedded with a microchip, researchers have announced a critical flaw in the card system.

A new study documents the large and lingering effects of media misinformation.

You may have the body of a Greek god, all rippling muscle and taut sinew, but no matter how good you look in a Speedo (or out of one), Twitch would very much appreciate it if you'd keep yourself covered up while you're streaming on its serv ...

The public break between the CBC and Jian Ghomeshi, Canada’s best-loved radio host since Peter Gzowski, started last week with a discreet announcement that he was taking a leave from the broadcaster for personal reasons, days after the death of his f ...

14-year-old Gia Soriano, wounded in last week's Seattle-area high-school shooting, has died.

In the 1970s, idealistic young activists created a wave of experimental schools - no compulsory lessons, no timetables, no rules. So what happened to the kids who attended these free-for-alls?

Christophe de Margerie, who was killed when a private jet collided with a snow plough, was one of the world’s most recognisable oil executives

The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to use its strict voter identification law in the November election. The court’s order, issued just after 5 a.m., was unsigned and contained no reasoning.

Two Air France pilots were asleep, leaving a rookie at the controls, before the plane crashed into the sea in 2009, killing all 228 people board. Disturbing new recorder information from doomed Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean five ye ...

Tech stocks fell sharply on Friday, setting a somber mood for the industry this weekend. The carnage was widespread, with giants taking a stumble — Microsoft, -3.97%; Google, 2.92%; Facebook, -3.95%; LinkedIn, -3.84%; Yahoo, -3.65%; and Alibaba, -3.2 ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket safely delivered a U.S.-Russian trio to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, despite a technical glitch which briefly threatened to lengthen their journey to the $100 billion complex. The Soyuz blasted off to the IS ...

The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the EU's anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC. Gilles de Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory atta ...

North Korea has criticised the ongoing US military offensive in Iraq and Syria against Isis as "aggression and plunder". A report on the North Korean state media said what the Obama administration is doing is tantamount to state-sponsored t ...

In a grim assessment of the Ebola epidemic, researchers say the deadly virus threatens to become endemic to West Africa instead of eventually disappearing from humans. "The current epidemiologic outlook is bleak," wrote a panel of more than ...

France says its fighter jets have successfully carried out the country's first airstrikes against Islamic State insurgents inside Iraq. The office of French President Francois Hollande said Rafale jets launched a strike against a militant logist ...