Paris: A hundred and fifty years ago, in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", French science-fiction forerunner Jules Verne pictured a vast sea that lay deep under our planet's surface. Now, that strange and haunting image has found an unexpected echo in a ...

Today the world wide web turned 25-years-old and to celebrate founder Tim Berners-Lee took to traditional and new media alike to make his case for an Internet bill of rights. "Our rights are being infringed more and more on every side, and the danger is that ...

LOS ANGELES | Ever feel the rainy-day blues on a bright and sunny afternoon? If so, your Facebook account may be to blame, according to new research. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists argued that the hugely popular ...

GAZA CITY, Palestine: Israeli warplanes pounded 29 Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday night in response to heavy Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state earlier, the military said. Palestinian eyewitnesses, including an AFP photographer, said ...

The NSA is using an automated system to infect millions of computers across the globe. The NSA is using an automated system to infect millions of computers across the globe with malware that will enable all sorts of advanced surveillance, according to a ...

Paris Saint-Germain advanced safely into the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday, beating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 at the Parc des Princes in their last 16, second leg to take the tie 6-1 on aggregate. Trailing 4-0 from the first leg in Germany ...

Computerworld - As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th year Wednesday, top techies are looking ahead over the next 25 years, to a future when the Web will be woven more deeply, and seamlessly, into our lives. A Pew Internet Research Project report ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - While U.S. law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying.

The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly been working for the past several years on expanding its ability to infect computers with surveillance malware and creating a command-and-control infrastructure capable of managing millions of compromised ...

(Updates rocket total in first paragraph.) March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel should resume military control of the Gaza Strip after a barrage of 41 rockets was fired from the Palestinian territory. No injuries or damage were ...

The information superhighway called the World Wide Web came into being 25 years ago on Wednesday, an anniversary that heralded praise from the British royal family and British Prime Minister David Cameron, but its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee said the ...

A new comprehensive writeup at The Intercept claims to reveal additional details of the NSA's plans to infiltrate and conquer the Internet -- as well as its desire to bring virtually all data, everywhere, within its reach. A year ago, this kind of claim would've ...

At a time when instability is at its peak in South Sudan, the volatile region of Darfur is once again slipping into anarchy. The warning that has come from the United Nations should be taken seriously not only by both the independent Sudanese states but also ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — A police officer left a shoe print — later apparently wiped off — on the door that is one of the most crucial exhibits in the murder trial of South African Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, defense attorney told Pretoria's high court ...

A huge explosion levelled two apartment buildings in New York City, killing two women and injuring more than 20 people. More than a dozen people were missing and two of those who were hurt had life-threatening injuries, fire officials said. Smoke billowed ...

Armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside an Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalnoye near the Crimean city of Simferopol. Picture: David Mdzinarishvili. Related Stories. Merkel: Russia may face new sanctions · How ...

Protesters gesture as they stand behind a barricade during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan in Istanbul. Photo: AFP. Ankara: Protesters in Turkey defied arrests and tear gas as they marched in Istanbul and Ankara during a funeral on ...

BRUSSELS—The European Union has slammed the brakes on two big Russian pipeline projects to supply more natural gas to Europe, as part of its efforts to turn up the heat on Moscow over its incursion into Crimea. The move will deal a blow to Russia's ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will stage the initial phase of cricket tournament Indian Premier League (IPL) while Bangladesh has been put on standby for some matches by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), ending weeks of speculation.

After 30 years on death row, 64-year-old Glenn Ford has walked out of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola a free man after a judge voided his 1983 murder conviction based on new exculpatory evidence. Ford was convicted of killing Isadore Rozeman, ...