An ancient burial containing chariots, gold artifacts and possible human sacrifices has been discovered by archaeologists in the country of Georgia, in the south Caucasus.

Exclusive: Ghana Football Association calls in police after undercover investigation by The Telegraph and Channel Four’s Dispatches programme finds that the President of Ghana’s FA agreed for the team to play in international matches that others were ...

A teenage girl and man have been jailed for defacing a mosque with strips of bacon. Chelsea Lambie, 18, from Paisley, and Douglas Cruikshank, from Galashiels, wrapped bacon around the door handles on the Central Mosque in Edinburgh and threw strips i ...

Did you know that in the 70 days since April 6th, the world’s population has increased by about 15,690,000 people, which is roughly equivalent to the current combined populations of Pennsylvania and Iowa? Of course not! That’s just one of the fascina ...

The arrival of a Liberian-flagged freighter with Ukrainian, Arab and Filipino sailors spells one thing for Elena -- dollars. And greenbacks are king in Venezuela, the 32-year-old prostitute says.

Martin's editor Anne Groell has said in a Q&A that the presence of an eighth kingdom in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga might indicate an eighth book in the series

A 58-metre-long Chinese fishing boat seized by the US coastguard for allegedly catching half a tonne of salmon illegally in the North Pacific was turned over to Chinese authorities yesterday. The Yin Yuan is suspected of using an illegal high-seas dr ...

Always wanted to see what happens in my dishwasher after I close the door. Many of the other videos I saw had terrible lighting or bad angles.

Police say a 19-year-old man caused a three-car crash when he fainted while holding his breath as he drove through a tunnel in Oregon. According to a news release, Daniel J Calhon told investigators he fainted on Sunday afternoon while holding his br ...

Gamers want to be completely immersed in a video game, right? But just how immersed can that experience get? What is the limiting factor right now holding video game players back from having a completely real experience? Surprisingly, the answer migh ...

Russia intends to spend more than US$600 billion to re-equip its armed forces with cutting-edge weaponry. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov says the program may even include buying US military technology.

One overlooked aspect of Spielberg is that he's actually a stealth master of the long take. From Duel to Tintin, for forty years, he has sneakily filmed many scenes in a single continuous shot. As always, this video is for educational purposes o ...

Small distillers (and even big ones) would love to speed up the chemistry that happens inside a barrel, because as long as what they make is sitting in wood, it’s not making money. Technology that could shorten the time between distillation and bottl ...

British student Henry Miller, 19, died in Colombia after apparently consuming the traditional hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, or yage. Emma Thelwell, who took the drug herself, explains why it has become a rite of passage for some backpackers.

EA SPORTS UFC's Gameplay Series turns its focus to Bruce Lee and shares a look at some of his in-game skills.

A small US-based company called Solar Roadways are developing a solar road surface that, if installed nationwide, has the potential to produce more renewable energy than the entire country uses. In fact, they’ve actually already developed a working p ...

“Have you played Threes yet?” I rarely ask my wife about whether or not she’s played certain games, but Threes, I felt, would mark a great exception. She’s more into mobile gaming than I am, dipping her toes into titles that friends of friends recomm ...

Russia’s Federation Council has passed the bill introducing obligations for maintainers of popular blogs, roughly similar to the existing rules for mass media. The new bill introduces a definition of ‘blogger’ to Russian legislation. Popular blogs, d ...

It is a waste product from childbirth, so why would anyone choose to eat a raw human placenta? It sustains life in the womb and has fulfilled its primary purpose once it leaves the mother during childbirth. The human placenta then becomes something r ...

Add Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, DropBox, Yahoo and about 145 other companies to the list of voices that aren't particularly impressed with FCC boss Tom Wheeler's half-hearted effort to protect network neutrality. In a letter the co ...