LUCKNOW: The Supreme Court's landmark verdict on Tuesday granting legal recognition to transgenders or eunuchs as third gender category promises to go a long way to ameliorate problems faced by them since Independence. RTI documents on the other ...

LUCKNOW: The Supreme Court's landmark verdict on Tuesday granting legal recognition to transgenders or eunuchs as third gender category promises to go a long way to ameliorate problems faced by them since Independence. RTI documents on the other ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google said Tuesday it could extend the one-day sale of its $1,500 Google Glasses, depending on how many requests it receives. Google originally said its wearable computers would be available only for a limited time Tuesday. But in an ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Images of the 'blood moon' during a total lunar eclipse are pictured around the world. The moon is seen during a total eclipse behind the cathedral in Monterrey on April 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Daniel Becerril). People watch as the 'Blood Moon' rises over the ...

Pretoria – Oscar Pistorius did himself more harm than good when he took the witness stand, lawyers said. Throughout five gruelling days on the witness stand, the Paralympic gold medallist contradicted himself, a nail in the coffin for his defence, said lawyers ...

Brazil has so far trained only 20% of the private security guards needed at the 12 stadiums for the World Cup in June and July, the BBC has learned. Federal authorities in charge of the football tournament told the BBC Brasil they would consider using police ...

CELESTIAL TREAT: A combo of six pictures shows the phases of the moon, from left, during a lunar eclipse in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The entire event was to be visible from North and South America, but sky watchers in northern and and eastern Europe, ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists abducted about 100 female students from a school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Tuesday, but some of the teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck, officials said. The girls were ...

Twitter just bought Gnip, a company that repackages and resells Twitter's “firehose”—the full stream of every public tweet on the site. Gnip is one of only a handful of companies to which Twitter gives access to the firehose, and was the first to get it, back in ...

Twitter just bought Gnip, a company that repackages and resells Twitter's “firehose”—the full stream of every public tweet on the site. Gnip is one of only a handful of companies to which Twitter gives access to the firehose, and was the first to get it, back in ...

Twitter announced on Tuesday that the social media company had agreed to undisclosed terms to acquire data partner Gnip. Twitter has had Gnip analyze tweets over the last few years to glean useful advertiser and business data, reports PC World. During ...

Twitter announced on Tuesday that the social media company had agreed to undisclosed terms to acquire data partner Gnip. Twitter has had Gnip analyze tweets over the last few years to glean useful advertiser and business data, reports PC World. During ...

NEW YORK -- Twitter says it has bought its data partner Gnip, which provides analysis of the more than 500 million tweets its users share each day -- to advertisers, academic institutions, politicians and other customers. Twitter said Tuesday that Gnip has ...

NEW YORK -- Twitter says it has bought its data partner Gnip, which provides analysis of the more than 500 million tweets its users share each day -- to advertisers, academic institutions, politicians and other customers. Twitter said Tuesday that Gnip has ...

Google filed a patent application for a Glass-like contact lens embedded with tiny cameras. The proposed smart contact lens could integrate a display that shows content from a web browser or application. By Alice Truong. Imagine if Google Glass were ...

Tuesday night sky gazers caught a glimpse of a "blood moon," the first of a series of four total lunar eclipses that will be visible in North America in 2014. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports. Photo: Getty Images. Up Next ...

Wrapping up five days of relentless cross-examination of Oscar Pistorius at his murder trial, the chief prosecutor insisted on Tuesday that he intentionally shot his girlfriend to death after they argued and in a final exchange urged the Olympic athlete to take ...