Inmates have described scenes of rape, torture and electrocution at Iran's notorious Evin jail where a British-Australian blogger has been locked up. Jolie King was arrested alongside Australian boyfriend Mark Firkin in early July after allegedly flying a drone near Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Cities are difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for people who are visually impaired, they can be like an obstacle course and a maze wrapped into one. A UK national travel survey found that adults with mobility difficulties took 39% fewer trips than those with no disability in 2017.

In the years since Donald Trump took ofice as President of the United States, he has often used incendiary language when discussing immigrants, Muslims and various other groups. Hate crimes have been on the rise in the US since 2015, and a recent review by ABC News found Trump has been invoked in at least 36 criminal cases of violent acts, threats or allegations of assault.

Now in its final stage, the Chandrayaan-2 mission is preparing for what has been dubbed "15 minutes of terror". That's how long the final descent and landing will take on September 7, when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) attempts to drop a lander the size of a golf cart near the Moon's south pole.

With a statewide marijuana decriminalization ordinance set to take effect at the start of 2020, Cook County, Illinois is slated to automatically clear “tens of thousands of cannabis convictions” with the assistance of an algorithm, the Chicago Tribune reported on Wednesday. Cook County is the nation’s second most populous county as well as home to the nation’s third largest city, Chicago.

Disney Plus has a ton of must-see shows, but it may not end up airing anything rated more mature than PG-13.

Sono Motors has revealed the interior of the Sion, its first electric car which comes with solar integration and moss as an air filtration system.

Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced on Tuesday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world’s top copper producer. The South American nation, which is due to host the COP25 global conference on climate change in December, said it would include a new line item for “climate expenditures” in its government budgets beginning in 2020.

The FCC likely counts millions of unserved homes as having broadband.

All the state attorneys general, along with 12 major companies, promise to finally make serious moves against robocalls.

Are there narcissists in your life who are just plain mean? Do you ask yourself, “How can someone be so mean?” Do you wonder sometimes how they even come up with their aggressive and vengeful antics? Are you shocked at the power of mean people and their ability to trigger your emotions?

Ben Shenton was raised in a cult that thought the world would soon end. It didn't - but one day his world abruptly changed.

It’s a race to the skies in terms of which company actually deploys an on-demand air taxi service based around electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. For its part, German startup Volocopter is taking another key step with the revelation of its first aircraft designed for actual commercial use, the VoloCity. The VoloCity is the fourth-generation eVTOL vehicle that Volocopter has created, but the first three were created for testing and demonstration purposes, and have flown more than ...

If you've ever tried to swat a fly, you know that insects react to movement extremely quickly. A newly created biologically inspired compound eye is helping scientists understand how insects use their compound eyes to sense an object and its trajectory with such speed. The compound eye could also be used with a camera to create 3-D location systems for robots, self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The author of 'On the Clock' investigates the experience of modern low-wage work

"The potential to prevent harm is high here, particularly with the widespread existence of health misinformation on the platform."

From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of the most lethal weapons known to humankind are now peaceful havens for wildlife.

Parents with young children are less happy than non-parents, but the tables seem to turn when their children leave home and become more supportive than stressful

Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.