Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faeces. The stunt was part of his speech at the Reinvented Toilet Expo event - a showcase for new toilet technologie ...

Only a third of Americans ages 18 to 29 say they will cast a ballot next month. Here, we ask why.

Apu has become controversial recently, with some people arguing that he is an Indian stereotype.

More than three years after Jennifer Garner announced her split with Ben Affleck, she’s reportedly seeing John Miller, a real-life burger king based out of California. The two have been “casually dating” for a few months, unnamed sources told multipl ...

Netflix's new German shows cut across genres, including a pair of contemporary crime drama, a sci-fi dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Europe, a period epic from 9 A.D. and a family mini-series about Christmas. Netflix is upping its output of G ...

Six months after US officials separated them at the border, ICE put a 4-year-old girl on a plane to Guatemala this week so she could be reunited with her father. But there was one major problem, according to advocates who worked on the case: The man ...

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and Treasury warning about a new ATM scheme being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra. Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group and Guardia ...

WITH massive tusks that touched the ground, Satao towered over the rest of his herd. One of the last great “tuskers”, the beast estimated to be around 50 years old was heralded as Kenya’s biggest, oldest, and arguably most iconic elephant. Tourists f ...

At least 24 people were killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a military parade in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iran's state news IRNA said. The dead and wounded were both military personnel and civilians including ...

I played Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time this week, and I swiftly caused glorious chaos. Yesterday I sampled a section of Rockstar Games’ upcoming western at their New York City headquarters, a location game-previewing press haven’t had much ...

A couple of friends in Texas are going viral for a prank they pulled at a McDonald's. “We were eating McDonald’s one day and we looked around and saw there were posters around that didn’t have any Asians,” explained Jevh Maravilla, a University ...

Pyotr Verzilov, an activist with Russian protest group Pussy Riot, has been flown to Berlin for specialist medical treatment following a suspected poisoning in Moscow. He reportedly fell ill after a court hearing on Tuesday and was taken to hospital ...

Mystery continues to swirl around a hole found in the outside of the International Space Station. Last week, Nasa and the Russian space agency scrambled to fix a leak in the floating laboratory that was causing air to slowly rush out of the space sta ...

We’ve repeatedly tried to make it clear that while everybody tends to focus on the death of net neutrality itself, the Pai FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” order killing net neutrality had a farbroader impact than just killing net neutrality rules. ...

Apple has bought Akonia Holographics, a Colorado-based startup dedicated to the manufacturing of displays for augmented reality glasses. In addition to other recent purchases, this is an extremely strong indicator that the Cupertino company is active ...

Mark Leibovich spent years digging under the skin of Washington, D.C.’s power brokers. When he turned his attention to the world of pro football for a new book, he found an awfully familiar set of characters.

Las Vegas isn't the first place that springs to mind as a sustainable agriculture hub. But the city could soon become a major purveyor of fresh greens, thanks to a new $30 million vertical farming facility. At 215,000 square feet, it's one ...

A court in Vietnam has sentenced two Americans to 14 years in jail for to “attempting to overthrow the state”, state media reported. James Nguyen and Angle Phan were accused of plotting to hijack radio stations to broadcast anti-state messaging and o ...

Maria Celeste Molina warily pulled cash from a downtown ATM and stuffed the bolivars in her purse. Come tomorrow, she had no idea what they might buy. “I need the cash to travel tomorrow,” the 24-year-old university student said. “But I don’t know if ...

Google CEO misleading staff on China censorship search engine: Google withdrew from 8 years back to protest the country’s censorship and online hacking. Now, again the internet giant is working on a censored search engine for China. The only motive f ...