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Last December, the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York's leading L.G.B.T.-rights organization, did something almost unheard of. After twenty-five years of work, it declared victory and closed. "We ran out of causes, and ...

An image no Putin-hater wants to see. A smiley U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speak together following a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 25, 2016 follo...

Turkey is facing the largest wave of terror attacks in its history -- in the past six months alone, the country has been hit by five deadly attacks.

AP Photo/Eric Risberg The next round of Oracle's ongoing copyright lawsuit against Google over Android will begin on May 9. And Oracle is going to try to convince the jury that Google owes it $9.3 billion, reports Jame...

Courtesy of Sonia Thompson In 2012, Sonia Thompson had it all. Working in marketing for Johnson & Johnson, she was earning over $200,000 a year, living alone in a three-bedroom townhouse outside of Philadelphia. Things w...

Co-written by Johan Vardrup No man is an island and in this age of the open workspace, we humans appear to be very much affected by our surroundings. Professionals sharing an interior landscape, show a consistent level o...

The arrest of a 32-year-old French citizen in the Netherlands on Sunday is tied to the arrest of another man, Reda Kriket, who was described as being in the advanced stages of planning a terror attack on France, accordin...

The purchases totaling about 14,000 acres have rekindled debate over whether a patchwork of laws and court rulings favors farmers too heavily.

The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose to 70 on Monday, underscoring the ability of the militants to stage large-scale attacks d...

YouTube screenshot MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s brash attempt to revolutionize medicine as it did the Internet is facing turbulence, and many leaders who launched its life sciences startup have quit, STAT has fou...

Reuters P-22, the mountain lion that rose to stardom after gracing the covers of National Geographic in December 2013 while prowling in front of Los Angeles' infamous Hollywood sign, has once again made headlines, but as...

REUTERS/Kyodo Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, drawing an angry resp...

Military maps redrawn after it emerges that site of civilian airfield in Nottinghamshire was marked in the wrong spot An RAF fighter pilot left "little margin for error" after a near miss with a microlight that was comin...

Names such as "Null," which is also a programming term, may cause problems in online computing systems. The problems are also caused by names that are unusually long, or those that consist of just one character. The post...

Texting and walking never go down well together, but this does not mean that nothing should be done about it. There has been research that texting while moving around can be dangerous, and another study also pointed to t...

As season six of “Game of Thrones” fast approaches, a new teaser debuted this weekend, and with it, a bit of new footage. And one thing is for certain: there will be death. The teaser skips ruminating and goes head-f...

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset launched on Monday, but many game developers believe it could take as much as 15 more years before the gadgets are widely adopted by mainstream consumers. According to a survey ...

Advice for how to gracefully handle mistakes often emphasizes 1) taking responsibility for the error, 2) presenting a plan for the remedy, and then 3) fixing what was wrong. Although these directions sound simple, they c...

REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin The Kremlin on Monday took the unusual step of issuing a sort of “pre-buttal” in advance of the publication of an international group of investigative journalists’ rep...

In the wake of reports of increased drone sightings, should you be worried about safety?

A price surge could be coming to a freezer near you.Following a poor harvest in Madagascar last year, the cost of vanilla beans has surged.

Heinrich Harder/Wikimedia For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn — a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse — died out some 350,000 years ago, but a beaut...