Tokyo: Being deprived of sleep for just six hours or a single night may affect the liver's ability to produce glucose and process...
Tokyo: Being deprived of sleep for just six hours or a single night may affect the liver's ability to produce glucose and process...
London: For centuries, London has sustained a street-level economy where performers and vendors make a living from the spare change of strangers --...
DEAD SEA, Israel: A ballerina's tutu, submerged in the Dead Sea and "frozen" by accumulated layers of salt into a 200 kg (440...
Paris: They may be small and striking, but shrikes are songbirds known for viciously impaling their victims with a razor-sharp bill although experts...
Beijing: A kindergarten principal in China trying to liven up a formal back-to-school ceremony with a racy pole dancer was fired after angry...
SOUTHAMPTON, England: All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it...
Tokyo: A Japanese team working to develop a "space elevator" will conduct a first trial this month, blasting off a miniature version on...
San Francisco: Twitter is planning to roll out threaded conversations like Facebook along with status indicators -- showing who else is online among...
Los Angeles: In a promising find, a team of biologists at the University of California-Los Angeles has discovered thousands of four-and five-drug combinations...
The goal of a non-stop flight from Sydney to London -- half the way around the planet -- took a leap forward as...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Britt'Nee Brower grew up in a largely Inupiat Eskimo town in Alaska's far north, but English was the only language spoken...
CAIRO: Egypt said Sunday that archeologists have unearthed one of the oldest villages ever found in the Nile Delta, with remains dating back...
Everyone knows that walking is one of the best exercises for health, which is why physicians regularly recommend 150 minutes a week. But...
After being laid off this past December, I booked a two-week trip to Paris. I already lived alone, went to dinner alone, sat...
When you want something more flavorful than water to quench your thirst, and you'd like to keep it healthful, on an ordinary day...
Shanghai, "Last one in is a rotten egg," a neon sign in brilliant pink goads, as half a dozen people frolic and snap...
San Francisco, Apple has launched a free repair programme for iPhone 8 handsets that were sold between September 2017 and March 2018 with...
LONDON: Baked by a blazing summer and keen to reduce their use of plastic bottles, Londoners are welcoming a scheme to re-introduce drinking-water...
