Sicilian gangs persuaded drug addicts, alcoholics and people with mental health issues to have their limbs broken and then staged fake car accidents to get hundreds of thousands of euros as insurance payouts, according to police, who have broken up t ...

A bed net designed to kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could prevent millions of cases of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists have found. A two-year clinical trial in Burkina Faso showed that dousing bed nets with a combination of chem ...

Many gamers sell their their used, physical games, often to supplement spending funds to buy more games. It’s such a big part of the gaming business that almost half of retailer GameStop’s profits come from selling used games.

Newly released surveillance video shows the moment a police officer in Nashville, Tennessee, fatally shot a man in the back as he ran away — leading to questions about the use of deadly force and calls for the police chief's resignation. The fam ...

NASA has a mantra for preparing spacecraft to launch: “Test as you fly.” The idea is to test the entire spacecraft, fully assembled, in the same environment and configuration that it will see in orbit. But the Parker Solar Probe, set to launch August ...

A Saskatchewan woman who had to perform CPR on one of her newborn triplets while still in labour with the other two says all three babies are doing awesome. Danielle Johnston said her triplets, Karlee, Liam and Jack, are in the neonatal intensive car ...

Circumcising newborn boys increases their risk of cot death, new research suggests. Male babies who have their foreskins removed are likely to suffer from the condition, also known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), due to the stress of the pro ...

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) said on Friday its shareholders voted to approve Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) $71 billion purchase of its film and television assets. Results were announced at a special shareholders’ meeting held in New York. Shares ...

The March for Our Lives teens said they’d #VoteThemOut, and a new study suggests they could be poised to do just that. According to the political data firm TargetSmart, the percentage of newly registered voters who are under the age of 30 has grown s ...

American conservatives have abandoned their entire framework of thinking about national security. Since the end of the Second World War, the foreign policy views of American conservatism have been about defending America's international power, a ...

A Brentwood woman is recovering after a brown recluse spider bit her several times. Angela Wright said she woke up with arm pain and noticed a couple bumps on her chest and arm, but didn't think much of it. She went to the doctor's office a ...

Netflix has established a substantial foothold in the American living room — especially among millennials. The subscription-video service is now the most popular platform for watching entertainment on TV, ahead of traditional cable and broadcast tele ...

Earlier this week, former employees called out AT&T for unethical business practices that pushed customers to sign up for various streaming TV packages, sometimes without their knowledge or explicit consent. But now, it seems things may have gott ...

The race for autonomous vehicles has had its share of bumps and setbacks. Whether it be difficulties in obtaining testing permits, or safety drivers not doing their jobs, the industry has a rough road ahead to becoming an accepted form of transportat ...

India's southern state of Kerala has had a long tradition of using elephants for religious celebrations and parades. The pomp, however, belies the cruel conditions under which these gentle giants live.

New York's attorney general announced on Thursday she was suing the Trump Foundation, as well as Donald Trump and his children, alleging "extensive and persistent" lawbreaking. Barbara Underwood said the charitable foundation had engag ...

Star Trek has a lot to answer for. Not content to tease us with unreasonable expectations of phasers and warp drive, it also thrust into the popular imagination the idea of teleportation, in which we step into a giant scanner of some sort and instant ...

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders were arrested during a three-month, nationwide operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identifie ...

Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana. Freeman said he was carrying 47 pounds of marijuana in his rental car that day, Dec. 29, ...

Sixty years after the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), most Americans believe the United States should be at the forefront of global leadership in space exploration. Majorities say the International Space Station ...