Cult Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger, famous for designing Sir Ridley Scott's Alien, has died in hospital aged 74 after falling down some stairs at his home in Zurich. Born in 1940, Giger studied architecture and industrial design at Zurich's School of Applied Arts.

OINT of no return” has been reached in the long-term collapse of glaciers on the west of Antarctica, according to two new reports. Two papers published this week claim instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet could have a big impact on sea level rises during ...

The budget smartphone wars have suddenly gotten intense almost overnight. Yesterday, I wrote about the impending launch of Motorola's Moto E, a phone that from all speculation looks to be an outright winner, much like its predecessors the Moto G and the ...

Motorola announced the Moto E, its least expensive smartphone to date, on Tuesday. Motorola believes the device will not only shake up the entry-level smartphone segment, but sound the death knell for feature phones once and for all. The Moto E carries ...

The fact that the sparks of brightness in his public activity will likely be forgotten is as harsh a blow to former PM Olmert as his jail sentence. By Yossi Verter | May 13, 2014 | 3:25 PM. Tweet. Olmert in court on Tuesday morning. Ehud Olmert in court on Tuesday ...

Two new studies show that the huge West Antarctic ice sheet has begun to collapse. Scientists who performed the research warn the massive retreat of ice is most likely unstoppable and could lead to a rise in sea level in excess of 10 feet, according to the ...

THE chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has asked that the runner be placed under psychiatric evaluation after an expert witness testified that he had an anxiety disorder. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel noted that a psychiatrist for the defence said the ...

Germany on Tuesday launched a renewed diplomatic bid to defuse the Ukraine crisis with a bridge-building visit to Kiev by foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier aimed at closing the yawning gap between the interim government and the pro-Russia ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A mother of an abducted Nigerian schoolgirl has identified her daughter in a video posted by Islamist rebels that showed dozens of girls in captivity, a school leader said on Tuesday. The mother watched the video on television on Monday ...

The younger sister to Beyoncé lost her marbles on her brother in law Jay Z in an elevator after the MET gala. There were attempted hits. Hits. A retrained Solange. An angry Jay Z. And a motionless Beyoncé. Of course with no audio track it is difficult to ...

Disease detectives are going through the painstaking task of tracking down people who conceivably could have been infected by a health care worker who came down with the mysterious MERS virus while traveling from Saudi Arabia to the United States.

NEW YORK — In a sign that Jurgen Klinsmann is unsettled on his defense a month before the World Cup, the U.S. coach selected the mostly untested trio of John Brooks, Timmy Chandler and DeAndre Yedlin yesterday for his 30-man preliminary squad for ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian government official says "all options are open" in the search for missing schoolgirls that's supported by U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flying over Nigeria. The U.S and Britain are actively assisting Nigeria's ...

Motorola unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that may be low end, but it has a few features we really like. The Moto E runs Android 4.4.2, aka KitKat, and has a 4.3-inch display that touts an impressive resolution of 256 pixels per inch. The Moto E will also ...

Motorola has finally unveiled the Moto E and India will be the first country to get a taste of the latest budget effort from the one-time mobile giant. The phone is priced at an unbelievable Rs 6,999, which makes it great competition to the Indian low-cost ...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague attends an EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council building in Brussels Monday, May 12, 2014. EU foreign ministers discuss the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe). By Kim Sengupta – 13 May ...

LAGOS: Manned US aircraft were flying over Nigeria on Tuesday, searching for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram after Abuja dismissed a prisoner-swap offer from the militants. "We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians ...

Singers Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z are in a crisis mode after a video featuring Beyonce's sister Solange throwing a fit at her, became public. The video features Solange screaming at Jay-Z after stepping into the elevator. A large man, who appears to be a ...

Migrants being rescued during operation 'Mare Nostrum' in the southern Mediterranean sea off the Italian coast, 29 April 2014. European Pressphoto Agency. ROME—The ItalianNavy said Monday that it has recovered 17 bodies so far from a boat that sank ...

LOS ANGELES: US coach Jurgen Klinsmann named his 30-man provisional squad on Monday from which he'll select his 23-player World Cup finals squad. The most notable omission is DC United forward Eddie Johnson, a regular in the United States' ...