From the train, the town of Armyansk doesn't look like much. On one side of the tracks, there's a low-rise factory that appears not to have produced anything for some time. The other hosts a clutch of Soviet-era apartment blocks. And then you see the men with ...

Exactly 25 years after writing the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wants a digital bill of rights to protect Internet users from surveillance. Berners-Lee, 58 and a British computer scientist, told the Guardian the Web ...

Two people are dead, 18 are hurt and others are missing after two buildings collapsed following an apparent explosion that rattled upper Manhattan and shattered windows with a blast that could be felt blocks away, sources say. The two five-story buildings at ...

A group of Turkish activists hacked into the Twitter account of a top adviser to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, posting messages of solidarity with a teenage boy who recently died as a result of injuries sustained during mass protests last summer.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, spoke of his passion for the Web in a statement released to mark the 25th anniversary of its invention. “Together we have built an amazing Web,” said Berners-Lee. “But we still have a lot to do so ...

Tens of thousands of people joined a funeral procession in Istanbul today for a Turkish teenager who died after being hit by a police tear-gas canister during anti-government protests. Fifteen-year-old Berkin Elvan passed away on Tuesday nine months after ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — Prosecutors in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial have dropped their assertion that the double-amputee Olympian was wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) -- The recall of 1.6-million General Motors vehicles for ignition switch problems is now under investigation by the Justice Department according to sources speaking to the "Detroit News." Congress and the National Highway Traffic ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian authorities defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 on Wednesday even as they acknowledged they were unsure which direction the plane was headed when it disappeared, highlighting the ...

Frustration over Malaysia's handling of the search for a missing airliner is growing amid conflicting accounts surrounding the biggest aviation mystery in recent history. At a delayed press briefing yesterday, an array of officials from various agencies failed to ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's security council chief has accused Russia of a massive military buildup near Ukraine's border that raises the threat of an invasion. Andriy Parubiy, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, told Wednesday's ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron denounced Iran's government as a "despotic regime" in a speech to Israel's parliament on Wednesday and accused Tehran of making "despicable" efforts to arm Palestinian militants. His address ...

At least one person is dead after an apartment building in Harlem collapsed following a massive explosion, early reports suggest. Emergency crews and firemen from across New York City rushed to the scene as a large plume of dark smoke fanned across the ...

At his funeral in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday, mourners carried the coffin of Berkin Elvan, a Turkish teenager who had been in a coma since being hit on the head by a tear gas canister fired by police during anti-government protests last summer.

Washington — US Secretary of State John Kerry said he will travel to London to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday as a potentially explosive referendum looms in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. "We will offer certain choices to Foreign ...

ANGOLA, La. — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison Tuesday, hours after a judge approved the state's motion to vacate the man's murder conviction in the 1983 killing of a jeweler. Glenn Ford, 64, had been on ...

The news of the release of Glenn Ford after being released from a Louisiana prison after 30 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, is a dialogue opener for parents to discuss with children how to get past feelings of resentment to forgive and move ...

Tim Berners-Lee's proposal changed the world. These visual representations show what his World Wide Web has become. Previous. 1 of 10. Next. The World Wide Web turns 25 today, March 12, 2014, and despite what you may have heard, it's good for you.

12 March 2014 at 16:24 by Khatija Nxedlana & Sapa - The High Court in Pretoria has heard a large splinter of wood was missed when forensic analysts were re-assembling the door Oscar Pistorius fired shots through, killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

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