A FRENCH magazine claims President Francois Hollande is having an affair with actress Julie Gayet and says it has photographs to back its story. The website of weekly tabloid Closer said its Friday print edition would feature seven pages of revelatio ...

The Sochi Olympic games will be the most expensive ever held, by an egregious amount. $51 billion in total, and since Winter Olympics are smaller than Summer games, the Russian government is spending an average of $520 million per event--four times a ...

Previously called Niijima, the volcanic island that first broke above the Pacific Ocean on November 20 has merged with a neighboring uninhabited island called Nishino Shima as it continues to expand. The small volcanic island sits about 600 miles (97 ...

Panpsychism, the ancient doctrine that consciousness is universal, offers some lessons in how to think about subjective experience today

A Pennsylvania state trooper has been placed on unpaid leave and charged with pepper-spraying his girlfriend's 13-year-old son because the boy stayed in bed instead of going to school. Trooper Ernest Boatright was charged with child endangerment ...

Another five people in Saudi Arabia and one in the United Arab Emirates have become infected with the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.

A Google Chrome internet extension has been published aimed at circumventing a porn filter imposed by the UK government. The new filter has come under fire because it also blocks access to sites that provide advice on sex education and porn addiction ...

Forty-two years ago I had an unusual experience. I became friendly with a guy named Noam Chomsky. I came to know him as a human being before becoming fully aware of his fame and the impact of his work. I have often thought of this experience since — ...

The biggest organizations in the financial world have been conspicuously silent when it comes to Bitcoin, almost entirely staying out a staying out of a sector that’s been a huge moneymaking opportunity for those lucky enough to get in early.

I don't have anything against turkey. But I can't abide a holiday that denies its genocidal historical context

Beijing on Thursday became the third Chinese city to launch a carbon trading scheme to regulate soaring CO2 emissions from its main power generators and manufacturers, with first trades reported to have gone through at 50 yuan ($8.20) per permit. The ...

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A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet’s crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday. Sold to the elite club of meteorite collectors, the extraordinar ...

The report – published a week after Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, met the country's emir and declared Qatar was "on the right track" in dealing with workers' rights – claims that some migrant workers are victims of forced l ...

AT&T on Friday announced it has signed up more than 10 million U-verse high-speed Internet subscribers, noting that U-verse subs made up 60% of the company’s total wireline broadband customers by the end of the third quarter of 2013, versus 43% i ...

A common tactic of those who claim that science and religion are compatible is to argue that science, like religion, rests on faith: faith in the accuracy of what we observe, in the laws of nature, or in the value of reason.

These dapper criminals make the cast of Boardwalk Empire look like a bunch of inauthentic chumps. Enjoy these awesome (and quite frankly, a little creepy) mugshots.

Professional sport returns to Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years on Sunday when the first pitch is thrown in the communist island’s national baseball league, part of a government bid to halt the flow of sporting defectors overseas.

Scentee wants to expand your smartphone horizons and add smell to the senses your phone already stimulates. The plug-in accessory attaches to headphone socket on both iPhones and Android smartphones and, when told to by the companion app, releases a ...

The human face is as unique as a fingerprint, no one else looks exactly like you. But what is it that makes facial morphology so distinct? Certainly genetics play a major role as evident in the similarities between parents and their children, but wha ...