Miami--The discovery of a contagious cancer spreading among edible clams off the northeast US and Canadian coasts has stunned scientists and raised new...
Miami--The discovery of a contagious cancer spreading among edible clams off the northeast US and Canadian coasts has stunned scientists and raised new...
Los Angeles--Airplane sick bags may be the ultimate symbol of travel discomfort, with a journey interrupted by an outpouring that is both sudden...
The Poet Joseph Brodsky' Moscow--Russia has opened it first museum to dissident poet Joseph Brodsky in the remote house where he lived after...
Legnica, Poland--An extremely premature Polish infant weighing just 820 grammes (1.8 pounds) has become the world's smallest and youngest patient to escape death...
San Francisco---Zynga, the struggling social gaming group, announced Wednesday that co-founder Mark Pincus would return as top executive, less than two years after...
Washington---From the pages of a comic book that first came out in the Sixties comes the latest superhero to score a comeback on...
Ottawa--Canadian police launched an investigation Wednesday into the shooting death of a goose named after the Duchess of Cambridge that has left the...
Paris--Researchers said Wednesday a lab-manufactured antibody "significantly" reduced HIV blood levels in a small but promising human trial, and caused no harmful side...
New York---Billion-dollar startups or "unicorns" have been multiplying but only a small number have reached the value of $10 billion -- earning the...
Paris---The Netherlands is the land of giants: on average, its women stand almost 1.71 metres (5.6 feet) tall, and its men 1.84 metres....
Los Angeles---The six original "Star Wars" movies are being released online in digital form for the first time, the studios behind the iconic...
Washington--The honor of being the world's oldest person has passed to a 115-year-old American following the death of a 116-year-old compatriot who held...
Paris--Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century...
New York--The original manuscript of Don McLean's enigmatic song "American Pie" sold at auction in New York on Tuesday for $1.2 million, Christie's...
Paris--The United Nations launched a food safety campaign Tuesday for an era in which millions are dying of hunger or tainted produce even...
Paris--With the Cannes Film Festival set to open in just over a month's time, speculation is swirling over which films -- and which...
Los Angeles---American blues legend B.B. King has been hospitalised, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday, citing representatives for the singer but giving no...
Paris---Italian designer Francesco Smalto, who as one of the stars of the men's fashion industry clothed princes, heads of state and sporting icons,...
