Astronauts have successfully grown cabbage on-board the International Space Station (ISS) – the fifth crop to be harvested on the ISS. NASA Astronaut, Peggy Whitson successfully managed to plant and…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) appears to be preparing for all scenarios when it comes to a Trump presidency. According to sources speaking to Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review, the tech giant has…

Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels in the Black Sea, some more than a millennium old, shedding light on early empires and trade routes. The medieval ship lay more…

Ever since childhood, Brian Regan had been made to feel stupid because of his severe dyslexia. So he thought no one would suspect him of stealing secrets by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee…

On 29 November 2010, then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton stepped out in front of reporters to condemn the release of classified documents by WikiLeaks and five major news…

A new bridge spanning, or circumnavigating, Laguna Garzón, a coastal lagoon in southeastern Uruguay, poses just that question. It’s a circular bridge — or rather two joined semicircular bridges —…

Five people have died after a light aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff at Malta International Airport. An airport source said the five victims were all French, although it is not…

Before Hurricane Matthew hit the United States this week the storm tore through the Caribbean, bringing torrential rain and high winds to Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. But despite hitting…

The gloves came off in the second US presidential debate as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in ugly exchanges over the leaked tape showing the Republican bragging about sexually…

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, in a surprise choice after Colombians voted “No” to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end…

Hurricane Matthew twisted toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing at least 26 people in Haiti. The hurricane, which damaged the majority of homes in Haiti’s…

A Southwest Airlines flight in the US was evacuated after a passenger’s Samsung phone reportedly began emitting smoke. Flight 994 leaving Louisville, Kentucky was evacuated on the runway prior to…

David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries in condensed-matter physics that have transformed the understanding…

The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade has ripped into Haiti’s south western peninsula, packing 230km/h winds and storm surges that killed at least one person and damaged homes….

Scientists behind the historic Rosetta mission have said their goodbyes to the spacecraft as it entered the final stage of its descent on to a comet. The quest to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist rebel leader Timochenko used a pen made from a bullet tonight to sign an accord ending a half-century war that killed a quarter…

Both the Republican and Democrats are claiming victory after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed in the first US presidential debate. Mr Trump’s Twitter account tweeted claims that several polls…

The two candidates in the race for the White House will face off tonight in the first of the US presidential debates. A record television audience is expected to see…

WASHINGTON — Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation’s highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people. In…

An Irish naval vessel has been involved in a mission to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya. The LÉ James Joyce this morning located and rescued 423 migrants from…

During WWII, Betty Pack used seduction to acquire enemy naval codes. These days the “honeypot” is a popular trope in espionage thrillers, with seemingly every high-level informant recruited via seduction…

Inmates imprisoned across nearly half the United States are planning to go on strike today, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. Some will stop work, others will start…

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the…

Around 50 people are stuck in cable cars high above the glaciers of Mont Blanc in the French Alps this evening after a helicopter rescue operation was suspended as night…