It’s hard to build your country when the money keeps slipping away. Foreign capital flight has been a problem for developing countries this year, but a bigger problem might be the funds smuggled out by tax evaders, corrupt officials and criminals—$94 ...

Following pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of Sint Maarten appears to have seized The Pirate Bay's .SX domain name. The torrent site itself hasn't been taken down and has quickly relocated to a new address on Asc ...

The National Library of Norway is planning to digitize all the books by the mid 2020s. Yes. All. The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds of thousands of them.

Less than five percent of current world languages are in use online, according to a recent study by prominent linguist András Kornai - and the Internet may be helping the other 95 percent to their graves. Those startling conclusions come from a paper ...

How "melodrama, misrepresentative exaggeration and mockery" became the dominant tone on cable and talk radio

Without a doubt, black-velvet painting lives up to its reputation as the pinnacle of tackiness. You could point to any number of cheap, poorly done images of Elvis, scary clowns, matadors, “Playboy” nudes, and strange unicorns sold to American touris ...

He was the British extreme right's most feared streetfighter. But almost right up to his death 20 years ago, Nicky Crane led a precarious dual existence - until it fell dramatically apart.

Human Rights Watch calls on international donors to withhold funds if government presses ahead with controversial new law to bring back stoning

IF you want to marry in India and are looking for a bride or groom, normally you need to consult an astrologer, to learn whether the position of the planet Mars is favorable on your birth chart. If not, you may find it difficult to get the match of y ...

Each of the new consoles makes it easy to record and share videos of game play, and Twitch is a company built around the production and consumption of videos of people playing video games. The venture started in 2011 as an offshoot of Justin.tv, whic ...

2 lunch boxes holding 12 bars each found hidden in toilets of Jet Airways plane in India

Scientists reviewed the records of 391 bilingual and 257 monolingual patients diagnosed with dementia between 2006 and 2012 at a clinic in Hyderabad, India. Patients who spoke two languages developed the first signs of dementia an average of 4.5 year ...

The Pakistani Taliban has chosen the commander whose men shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last year as its new leader, after the death of his predecessor, Hakimullah Mehsud, in a U.S. drone strike last Friday.

Look out! There's an app barreling toward your skull, and it's going as fast as a car.

A new cancer risk gene has been discovered which explains the early-onset in some multiple-case breast cancer families. The international team of investigators led by the University of Melbourne, identified rare mutations in the RINT1 gene to increas ...

Newly discovered mechanism could help researchers understand ageing process and lead to ways of slowing it down

Several hundred gun rights activists armed with rifles and shotguns rallied Saturday outside of the Alamo in a demonstration that broke a longstanding tradition of not staging such events at the enduring symbol of Texas independence.

A fan who appeared to be heavily intoxicated before Saturday’s Clemson versus Florida State football game stole away the show on ESPN’S “College GameDay.” The fan could be seen on live television removing his shirt and dancing, all while pouring beer ...

Well, we finally know it’s true. AT&T, Verizon and other communications companies collude with the government to trample our rights to connect and communicate. The National Security Agency leaks have proved that beyond a doubt. But to pawn it all ...

The colossal wind tunnels at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have been used for decades not only to test the aerodynamism of planes, but also to subject submarines to simulations of turbulence and drag in aquatic environment ...