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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe aviation authorities impounded a US-registered cargo jet, a senior official said Monday, with a dead body and millions of South African rand reportedly on board. Civil Aviation Authority of Z...

It seems all people need to download music streaming service Tidal is a little push from Kanye West.

The United States women’s national team take on Puerto Rico on Monday knowing that a draw is good enough to send them into the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship semi-finals as Group A winners. Fresh...

Australian police have seized $1 billion Australian dollars' worth of the drug "ice" from a shipment of silicon bra inserts and art supplies, the country's federal police said. That's worth just over US$700,000.

Sending emails is as easy as pie. However, until now a lot of know-how has been required to securely encrypt them. This is bound to change: Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology ...

America's biggest retailers are stocking up on hoverboards as fires, falls and rising restrictions fail to dent their popularity. Walmart and Toys 'R' Us, both of which sell the devices online, are adding the two-wheeled...

Syria condemns Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria which it has described as a violation of its sovereignty.

Singapore has an increasing need for public housing and is turning to 3D printing as a possible solution to the country's problem. With $107.7 million in government and industry funding, the Singapore Centre for 3D Print...

Fans can use the plastic bricks to recreate moments from the original Star Wars trilogy, "The Force Awakens," "Star Wars: Rebels" and the upcoming "Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures" series.

You might have read about a bug affecting iOS devices recently. It’s a rather odd one. Basically, you can render the iOS device useless if you change the day to May 1970 or earlier. There was no word from Apple on this...

The Apple Remote app for the iPhone lets users control their Apple TV on a basic level, but later this year it will become much more capable, even acting as an additional game controller for two-player games. The post Th...

Over the years, including in a number of posts collected on this Thread page, I've talked about some of the "artisanal" Mac-based programs I've used in my daily work since I made the PC->Mac switch eight years ago. The t...

Shopping visits increased year-on-year for the first time since last March - and the increase was the strongest for two years.

Emotiv has developed a range of brain monitoring headsets, which are affordable for small research teams, schools and individuals. The post Neuro-headsets for under USD 500 could help market research appeared first on Sp...

A 35-year-old Boston teacher was killed when a manhole cover hit her car. CNN affiliate WCVB reports.

It's easy to forget how lethal our natural world can be, where an encounter with the wrong rock or mineral could lead to injury or death

It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as president. He went through great lengths to hide this dise...

Apple has acknowledged the existence of a somewhat bizarre bug which bricks any iOS devices that has its date set back to 1970 — and confirms that a fix is on the way. “An upcoming software update will prevent this i...

Universal remotes haven't changed much since they were first introduced, but Sony is changing that with its new Huis universal remote, which uses an E-Ink display to show different controls for every device it's used wit...

He is accused of choking a woman in her mid-20s at the Plaza Hotel

Moody's said Deutsche Bank would make the payments barring "a major, unforeseen event."          

These potential nominees for the Supreme Court are believed to be on President Obama's short list: Srikanth Srinivasan, 48, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A former clerk to former Justice Sandr...