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More and more contemporary brands have one major problem: their founders come up with too much. They make up unbelievable stories, cast out lines of concepts so fantastical, that they fail to create something really inte...

An anomaly in deep space that has been the focus of speculation and observation for weeks over possible extraterrestrial life may have just been solved.

Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell astonished the House of Commons yesterday when he held up and read from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book while responding to Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement. McDonnell w...

A former South Korean university professor was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday for habitually beating his former pupil and forcing him to eat human feces and drink urine. …

This owl-shaped security camera has a two-way mirror for a beak, which conceals the camera, and uses its eyes to communicate its status.

Mother who left newborn baby in nativity manger at New York City church won't be prosecuted

Brace yourselves: the MPAA has divined the will of the force, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens has received a PG-13 rating. This is the second time, after Revenge of the Sith, that a Star Wars film has received the ratin...

Wall Street analysts and economists speak their own language.  Words like "research" and "analysis" mean one thing to regular folks, but something totally different to the folks with a financial interest in how they a...

Protesters take to the streets of Chicago for a second night over the killing of a black teenager by a white police officer.

Philippine marines killed eight suspected sympathizers of the Islamic State group in a clash in the southern Philippines on Thursday, seizing bomb-making equipment, assault rifles and black flags, military officials said...

Accountancy firm places most senior staff in Northern Ireland on administrative leave pending tax evasion inquiry Four senior executives from the Belfast office of accountancy firm KPMG have been arrested in Belfast on a...

Following the release of a video showing the fatal officer-involved shooting of a black teenager, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Tuesday night. Some shouted "16 shots," referring to the number o...

The victim is abducted by four men just yards from where a gangland kneecapping victim was reportedly dumped earlier this year.

Turing reneges on cutting $750-a-pill drug's price, rival's new 99-cent version selling well

Two military families, bonded by deployment in Afghanistan, have been reunited at Walt Disney World.

Retired detective Colin John Hart denies abusing girl and using truncheon to perform sex act A police officer is accused of raping a teenager and performing a sex act on her using his truncheon, a court has heard. Colin ...

Iran says diplomat missing since Saudi hajj stampede found dead after kidnapping accusations

Tech website TechCrunch confirmed on Tuesday that Apple has purchased Faceshift, the Swiss startup that provided motion capture technology for various games and movies including 'Star Wars.' Tech experts believe Apple wo...

Russia is expected to announce a restriction on imports from Turkey on Thursday in response to the downing of a Russian warplane, according to a report. But Moscow will not impose an embargo, a government source told Rus...

Ailing 92-year-old media mogul Sumner Redstone may be losing his edge -- but not his appetite for sex and steak, according to explosive court papers filed by a spurned gal pal. Former live-in girlfriend Manuela Herzer, 5...

Surf Life Saving Queensland urges swimmers to stay away from the hole, warning of strong currents and unstable sand A sinkhole the size of a football field has opened up on an island off south-east Queensland. Related: S...

Financial experts are poring over the details of George Osborne's Spending Review, in which he funded a U-turn on tax credit cuts with a £27bn windfall.