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Lured to Syria by the promise of a pure Islamic state, Mo only lasted a few months before he escaped to Turkey and asked for help at the U.S. consulate. "I've let my family down, I've let my nation down, and I've let God...

Of course, the "future" in the title refers to a possible future; we don't have a magical crystal ball yet. But even though we can't know what the future holds, if the current trends are any indication, Keiichi Matsuda's...

Deal would help restructure the island's $72 billion debt.

You might have noticed the word Indole in discussions about jasmine, lilies and other white flowers, with either good or bad connotation. Sometimes it is even used as a euphemism for an unpleasant odor. But not many of y...

Bids for Yahoo may be lower than the struggling Net company -- and shareholders -- hoped.          

The world has 1,614 billionaires. Here's what a new study says they're likely to have in common.

Hypersonic travel could soon become a reality after the successful launch of a new type of aircraft at a site in the Australian desert. The new jet could transport passengers from Sydney, Australia to London, UK in under...

When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's first female president, takes office Friday, she will have to balance two very different sets of expectations -- from those who voted for her and a Chinese leadership that wants the island on ...

A Swedish woman moved to the United States to have a rare rib removal surgery and become a plastic surgery model.Popular: Guns in America | Sanders Demands Clinton Apologize | Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World

The proliferation of free credit scores really has changed the game for consumers.          

The sea wasp, a kind of jellyfish, can kill people in as little as three minutes by wrapping them in ten-foot-long tentacles and inflicting stings all over the body, injecting them with a potent and extremely painful ven...

Jackie Arnett Elnahar, Founder of TelaDietitian, lets us know what our body needs to have a successful mind, and in turn, a successful business

The United Nations has expressed alarm after scientists recorded the 12th straight global monthly heat record in a row. …

30 bodies have been recovered so far, but at least 220 families remain unaccounted for

Samsung on Thursday announced it will bring its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China through a partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba's financial arm, an institution once rumored to be negotiating an identical...

Michel Temer took office last week after President Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending her impeachment trial

An old piece of ATM malware is back, and reportedly more dangerous and harder to detect than ever. According to security researchers from Kaspersky Labs, an updated piece of malware dubbed Skimer has infected numerous Wi...

A black woman was fatally shot on Thursday by a San Francisco police officer checking on a stolen vehicle, marking another killing for a department faced with public outrage over fatal police shootings and a federal revi...

 After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top secu...

Google's Project Ara modular smartphone venture is alive and well. In fact, it'll get a consumer launch next year. Blaise Bertrand, the head of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group, announced at Google I/O 201...

Canon's latest flagship DSLR, the EOS 1D-X Mark II, only recently started shipping, but users are reporting of at least one interesting but bizarre issue. The post Canon’s 1D-X Mark II suffers from bizarre glitch when ...

I just sat down with Rafe Caramago and several members of his Project Ara team to learn more about the modular smartphone -- because there's a lot going on with this thing. The project, which many had assumed was on its ...