San Francisco: Facebook's interest in China has led it to discretely create a photo-sharing application released there without the social network's brand being...
San Francisco: Facebook's interest in China has led it to discretely create a photo-sharing application released there without the social network's brand being...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. Over the weekend they got...
Scientists at a Massachusetts company seeking to make pig organs safe enough to be transplanted into humans have used gene-editing technology to clone...
Jerusalem: Israeli Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, certified last year by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, died on Friday aged 113,...
The founder of "MarioWay", Mario Vigentini (R), uses his creation next to Flaviano Tarducci (L), in charge of business development for MarioWay on...
WASHINGTON: In dense Chinese forests populated by dinosaurs 160 million years ago, two furry critters resembling flying squirrels glided from tree to tree,...
LONDON: Engravings on a human bone from a prehistoric archaeological site in a cave in southern England shows that human cannibals ate their...
A breastfeeding specialist from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) stressed the importance of breastfeeding babies from birth during a workshop recently organised at Al...
Three years ago, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spent their honeymoon at Castlemartyr Hotel and Resort, a palatial 17th-century manor house built around...
YAOUNDE: Governments and businesses in developing countries must act now to ensure rapid technological advances boost rather than hinder development, a think-tank said...
Fujisawa, Japan: When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working she still used an abacus for maths -- today she is one of the...
No food feels more like manna from the heavens to me than fresh figs. Plump and sweet with a sensuous meatiness, they are...
Mitrovica, Kosovo: Kosovo's Roma minority "are not treated as humans," laments Florim Masurica, who is seeking justice for his disabled son, one of...
PATNA: Doctors in eastern India can no longer test patients for the deadly lung disease tuberculosis (TB) after authorities imposed a ban on...
LONDON: In the fairy tale of “The Travelling Princess”, the heroine is granted one wish: to travel through foreign lands, meet new friends...
Illustrating how Silicon Valley is grappling with the role of women in technology, Google’s new diversity chief forcefully pushed back against a male...
The Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) recently welcomed the first outpatients to its digestive (GI) and liver disease clinics which have moved from their...
When Mondelez International Inc. said Wednesday that Chief Executive Officer Irene Rosenfeld was retiring, it was no surprise that the food company also...