The once dominant toy retailer has struggled against larger rivals such as Amazon and Walmart.

A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN.

The prosthesis could help more people who have lost their vision than a device already on the market.

Maria strengthens to a category four storm as it nears eastern Caribbean islands.

When Kim Hak Min lived in North Korea, every home prominently displayed a photo of the isolated nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, as well as his son and successor, Kim Jong Il. Now that he runs his own iPhone repair shop in this bustling South Korean capital, the 30-year-old defector has hung a very different portrait on the wall: Apple icon Steve Jobs.

This is a bad day for the W3C: it's the day it publishes a standard designed to control, rather than empower, web users. That standard that was explicitly published without any protections -- even the most minimal compromise was rejected without discussion, an intransigence that the W3C leadership tacitly approved. It's the day that the W3C changed its process to reward stonewalling over compromise, provided those doing the stonewalling are the biggest corporations in the consortium.

Get a glimpse of what life is like in North Korea, a country rarely seen by foreigners. Britain's fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow is our guide around the DPRK’s capital city Pyongyang before he heads up to the slopes of Masikryong.

Consider the 256 GB memory iPhone X: Implemented in vacuum tubes in 1957, the transistors in an iPhoneX alone would have cost 150 trillion of today's dollars, and one and a half times today's global annual product.

A team of researchers have developed an algorithm that can detect tiny structural changes in the brain.

There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia – and it's getting ready for 2020

A high-ranking priest working in the Vatican's embassy in Washington has been recalled after U.S. prosecutors asked for him to be charged there and face trial in a child pornography investigation, Vatican and U.S. officials said Friday. The diplomat was suspected of possessing, but not producing or disseminating, child pornography including images of pre-pubescent children, a U.S. source familiar with the case said. The source was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Just when you thought your health care was safe...

How the East German secret police caught a young man who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored Global Burden of Disease study is out.

A Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mexico consumes millions of liter of water per day while wells dry up

Legal experts say the revelation has enormous implications for the trajectory of Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference.

The Toxoplasma gondii parasite may be connected to a wide variety of human diseases, according to a new microRNA analysis. Andrew Masterson reports.

Not one to try at home. By Laila Tyack.

EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their money, took their ships, and sold their Death Star-esque space citadel to their most hated enemies. By Lee Yancy.

Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine

The IAB, 4As and ANA say Apple’s plans to integrate cookie-blocking into Safari could hurt the existing economic model of the internet.

Bright Future have just announced that they will be ending their coalition with the Independence Party, effectively collapsing Iceland’s government. By Paul Fontaine.

At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will burn up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, after 20 years in space.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday it won’t bring federal civil rights charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest and in-custody death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death touched off weeks of protests and unrest in the city.

Exclusive: one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century

North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of a powerful nuclear

A radiative cooling technology could help cut energy consumption in new buildings by nearly 70 percent—and significantly shave demand in existing structures, too.

An estimated 95% of Barbuda’s structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated.