At 107, Anthony Mancinelli has been cutting clients’ hair for 96 years. And counting.

A common probiotic holds the key

China is pushing hard for the release of a tech executive, while still trying to follow up on President Trump’s recent truce in trade frictions.

The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level, an effect detectable four years later, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute.

A dog left behind as the Camp fire swept through Butte County last month was found "protecting what was left of his former home" when his owners were finally allowed back onto their burned property earlier this week. K9 Paw Print Rescue shared the happy story of golden retriever Madison and his relieved owners in a Facebook post on Dec. 5, shared more than 9,500 times.

"It's definitely a 'very, very large brain' idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month."

The long read: Beijing is buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to ‘tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide influence campaign of astonishing scope and ambition

Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday recommended that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, receive “substantial” prison time for several federal crimes, despite his cooperation with ongoing law enforcement

Altered peptides from a South American wasp’s venom can kill bacteria but are nontoxic to human cells.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, in an estuary near Tampa Bay, Florida, I watched airboats move up and down the river banks, spraying massive plumes of weedkiller on to the vegetation. The state of Florida was trying to control and kill off scores of plant species. Nearby, children were lying out in the sun, though they knew better than to swim in the water, which has recently been blooming with toxic algae. Mists of weedkiller drifted downwind toward them.

Part of the journey is the end.

Cetaceans like dolphins and whales will no longer be kept in Canadian aquariums after the government passed a bill that prohibits their captivity. The bill, S-203, was first proposed in 2015, and it was finally passed after three years of intense legislative battles. With the bill in effect, Canada has taken another step towards becoming more environmentally responsible. The most uplifting thing about the bill is that there was support across the political parties.

Government seeks to prioritise environment and end some of world’s worst traffic congestion

WordPress is releasing a new version allowing users to easily use it as a full-featured CMS out of the box, not just as a blogging platform.

China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon's far side. The robotic Chang'e 4 mission is scheduled to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket on Friday (Dec. 7) at around 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT; 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time). If all goes according to plan, Chang'e 4's lander-rover duo will touch down within the moon's South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin after a 27-day flight, then study both the surface and subsurface of this region. [China's Moon Missions Explained (Infographic)]

An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times larger than the Sun – and from another three black-hole mergers. The Australian National University (ANU) is playing a lead role in Australia’s involvement with the gravitational wave discovery through a partnership in the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which is based in the United States.

Americans are consuming less coal in 2018 than at any time since Jimmy Carter’s presidency, a federal report said Tuesday, as cheap natural gas and other rival sources of energy frustrate the Trump administration’s pledges to revive the U.S. coal industry. A report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected Tuesday that 2018 would see the lowest U.S. coal consumption since 1979, as well as the second-greatest number on record of coal-fired power plants shutting down.

Over 30 journalists – including Jamal Khashoggi – have been murdered so far this year. With the help of colleagues and relatives, or in their own words and pictures, we pay tribute to some of them here.

I learned English—and Western culture—watching American movies in smoky minibuses.

Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.

Bill Gates reviews “The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness” by author Andy Puddicombe.

The UAE continues to push back the unveiling of the world’s most expensive painting. 'Salvator Mundi' by da Vinci was originally purchased for $450,312,500 by Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture in 2017, but many art historians believe that it isn't actually an original da Vinci painting. Art critic Jerry Saltz tells us why it isn't.

“It’s the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They’re getting tired, getting cranky — the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.”

The new franchise, which is expected to begin playing in 2021, will give the league 32 teams and balance the conferences at 16 teams apiece.

Photographer Mads Nordsvee describes the sighting as a "fairytale moment".

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly.

No matter what it calls its shift in strategy, the premium scripted content game is all but over.

Nestlé is making waves in Michigan as it applies to draw 60% more water from a single well it owns without paying any more money. 2The Swiss company pays $200 annually for a permit to pump water from its own wells, including its well outside of Evart, Michigan, from which it already pumps 130 million gallons of water each year.