Rosa Khutor, which was one of the main hubs of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, is "completely empty" six months after the games, according Russian photographer Alexander Belenkiy. Rosa Khutor is located near the mountain town of Krasnaya Polyana. ...

At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?

Germany, France and Britain present Israel with initiative aiming to rehabilitate Gaza with European oversight, while preventing terror groups from rearming.

It was a brazen attack, resulting in the death of the most senior U.S. officer since 9/11, and authorities say they think an Afghan soldier was the gunman. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene -- a longtime officer who was leading efforts to train soldiers in Afg ...

Hollywood has lost a true "Scream Queen." E! News can confirm actress Marilyn Burns passed away Tuesday. She was 65. "She was found unresponsive by a family member this morning in her Houston, TX area home," her rep said in a stat ...

A hotel in tony Hudson, NY, has found a novel way to keep negative reviews off Yelp and other sites — fine any grousing guests. The Union Street Guest House, near Catskills estates built by the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, charges couples who book w ...

Yesterday, I flew over downtown San Francisco. I swooped past the Transamerica Pyramid, taking care not to get speared, and winged it out towards the water. A heavy fog covered the bay, as usual, so I decided to head back into the city. I dove sharpl ...

Net neutrality – as a concept, a brand, a legal mandate, a principle – is too often only understood through a technological perspective. While that may be a pitfall of the larger tech ethos, net neutrality especially deserves and needs to be underst ...

The Earth appears to be in the early stages of the Sixth Extinction, the latest in a series of mass biodiversity losses that have punctuated the history of life on the planet, according to a paper published in Science this week. The defining characte ...

Most of the time, portraits of the royal family might be described as ‘stoic.’ But the most recent photograph of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II isn’t ‘stoic’ at all, in fact it might be better described as ‘sneaky.’

When Kim Philby decided that he wanted to join the British Secret Intelligence Service, he “dropped a few hints here and there,” as he later recalled, and waited patiently. Philby had attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and his father had been in th ...

Lenovo announced today that it will no longer sell its 8-inch Windows tablets in the US, less than a year after introducing both the lower-end Miix 2 8 and the high-end ThinkPad Tablet 8. IT World reports that Lenovo is stopping sales because of a ge ...

American G.I. John Frankemolle was guarding a group of captured German soldiers in Europe during World War II when an intelligence officer handed him an interrogation of prisoner of war (IPW) report. The officer told Frankemolle to keep the papers to ...

MIT researchers develop an improved system for timing of urban lights to minimize commuting times.

They really were invisible

Found at Gallery at Ice in Windsor, UK painted by Brian Weavers.

The Los Angeles Unified School District's plan to give every child an iPad—at a cost of $1 billion to taxpayers—drew universal criticism after numerous problems arose.

In a very clever piece on Medium titled “29 Reasons You’re Reading This Article,” Gilad Lotan, the chief data scientist for New York’s Betaworks, has concluded that 29 is the optimal number for a Buzzfeed listicle.

Bitcoin has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last 18 months. The value of one unit of the cryptocurrency has soared from $13 at the beginning of 2013 to $600 today. Investors have poured millions of dollars into Bitcoin-based startups. And Bitcoin go ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on Friday executed and crucified one of its own men for corruption in Syria, a watchdog and jihadist sites said, according to AFP.