Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear litter the world’s oceans. In some areas, this gear accounts for 30 per cent of the catch, trapping turtles, seabirds and whales as well as commercially fished species.

A Russian drone operator encounters a UFO, then must decide what is real and not.

The author, known as the "Lord of Misrule," had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts.

"No one should experience what we experienced that day with racism,” a 10-year-old in the group said.

An entirely new class of black holes may be lurking in the universe, and these may be far tinier than what scientists have found before, according to new findings.

Tiger Woods won his 82nd career win, tying the legendary Sam Snead.

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

Facebook’s refusal to even touch false political ads sends the message that it only cares about lies spread by regular users and not politicians.

BBC Click's Omar Mehtab looks at some of the week's best technology stories.

In case it wasn't clear already, Mark Zuckerberg really isn't a fan of TikTok. During a speech at Georgetown University, the Facebook CEO had some forceful criticism for rival app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. "While our services, like WhatsApp, are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption and privacy protections, on TikTok, the Chinese app growing quickly around the world, mentions of these protests are censored, even in the U.S...

What kind of crazy new smartphone comes with a 2,800mAh battery? The Google Pixel 4, that's the kind.

Cool policies. You ever going to enforce them?

All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor. You can’t see it happening, and may have heard nothing about it. It’s being planned by engineers and coders behind closed doors, in secure government locations far from public view.

On Friday, Gizmodo uncovered shocking new evidence that Facebook is using its platform to suppress stories about CEO Mark Zuckerberg... or maybe his janky, busted-ass website is just bugging out again for no reason. It’s hard to say, really. That’s sort of the problem.

Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos and bandages tricked out with patient-specific biosensors.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that testosterone administration did not affect cognitive empathy, a measure of the ability to recognize another’s feelings and motivations. The finding calls into question the theory that the symptoms of autism are caused by a hyper-masculinized brain.