For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and ...

Metagenomic sequencing of gut microbiota in previous studies have shown over-representation of Clostridium bacteria species in people with Type 2 diabetes, and obese adults. Now a research team from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Reh ...

“Keep your hands where I can see them, don’t move. You hear me? You have a license? Show me your license now. If you do something, I’ll kill you here. You understand?” Teodulo Sanchez tells BuzzFeed News the officer put a gun in his face during the t ...

Have you heard the one about the comedy club that charges by the laugh? What? That’s not a joke, there’s actually a comedy club in Barcelona that’s experimenting with using facial recognition technology to track how much people are enjoying the show, ...

About 1,000 workers at a Foxconn Technology Co. 2354.TW -0.13% plant in southwest China assembling printers and computers for companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ -1.69% went on strike for several hours this week demanding higher pay.

In the middle of last century, out in southern Idaho, amid the sagebrush and the steppes, the Navy kept a secret site. In that place—dry and arid, far from the sea and very much unlike it—scientists and engineers simulated a nuclear-powered submarine ...

World Animal Protection says enslaved elephants are routinely treated with violent and bullish tactics to beat them into submission so they can be ridden by tourists.

It's no secret that reading is good for you. Just six minutes of reading is enough to reduce stress by 68%, and numerous studies have shown that reading keeps your brain functioning effectively as you age. One study even found that elderly indiv ...

Riot Games' League Championship Series is an esports phenomenon. But do its contracts treat players fairly?

The lines between journalism and PR are rapidly becoming blurred as business interests bypass traditional media to get their message across

There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them: in a conference room in suburban Charlotte on the campus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, with an enormous old Bible on a side table, shelves of Great Books lin ...

Campaigners from Okinawa will arrive in Scotland on Monday to seek inspiration from the yes campaign as they look to boost support for making the southern Japanese island an independent nation.

A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it?

It’s eight o’clock on a muggy night in New York, and Tim Wu is winding down the worst day of his political career. He’s slumped over a small table inside his unofficial campaign headquarters: the Pushcart, a cafe where you can get slow-bar coffee, ma ...

A severed section of the fuselage lay 20 yards from a part of the under-carriage, beyond that were two upturned seats; across the road an open suitcase was gathering rain, next to  children’s shoes, magazines and a set of keys. These were the poignan ...

What do you get when you combine an air balloon, airplane, helicopter, and even a hovercraft? This is Airlander, the hybrid airship that's being build in Britain's historical Royal Air Force Cardington hangars, where the R101 airship was bu ...

Would you leave a one-star review over bad service if that meant someone would get fired?

After October, there will be no way to buy a Windows 7 PC and nothing but Live Tiles on the horizon. Unless Microsoft, as widely anticipated, announces Windows 9.

Could the world be approaching peak coal production? It sounds unlikely, given that demand for the black stuff has surged in the past decade. But Beijing is planning to ban coal burning in its six central districts from 2020. If energy-hungry China b ...