July 26, 1845: Two whaling ships sight Franklin's ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror as they sail toward the Northwest Passage. Winter of 1845-46: The expedition winters at Beechey Island. The graves of three crew members who died that winter are ...

Four times before in its history, at media events planned with military precision, Apple introduced a new invention that radically altered how the technology industry conceived of its future. The company hopes it did that again for a fifth time on Tuesday by ...

It has all the elements you would expect from a chilling mystery: the loss of two ships and 129 men; the discovery of human bones and the possibility there were desperate souls who turned to cannibalism to survive. So it was for the doomed Franklin ...

A Parks Canada-led team has found a ship lost in the doomed Franklin expedition to unlock the Arctic nearly 170 years ago, the fruit of a search championed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his efforts to forge a Conservative brand of Canadian ...

BRITAIN is to supply £1.6 million of machine guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq as part of a burgeoning international effort to drive back the jihadists. BRITAIN is to supply £1.6 million of machine guns and ...

YOUR business section reports on the impact of a weekend opinion poll pointing to a surge in support for independence on Scottish stocks ("Referendum uncertainty hits Scottish stocks", The Herald, September 9). YOUR business section reports on the ...

The new Apple iWatch is seen during the Apple event at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, September 9, 2014. Reuters/Stephen Lam. We welcome healthy discussions and friendly debate! Please click Flag to alert us of a comment that may be abusive ...

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry have been quickly linked together after Swift mentioned that her new song "Bad Blood" was about another pop star. Taylor Swift shared with Rolling Stone, "For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to ...

Washington: US President Barack Obama will address the nation on Wednesday night to spell out America's policy on ISIS terror group which has gained control over large parts of Iraq and Syria, threatening peace in the entire Middle East region. "What the ...

THE cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was riddled with "high energy objects" when the Boeing 777 broke up over eastern Ukraine, according to the first expert report on the aircraft's fate. Share. Go To. Comments. The preliminary findings of the Dutch ...

Nearly 7,000 Eritreans and Sudanese left Israel under pressure; some were imprisoned and tortured upon returning to their native countries, says Human Rights Watch report. By Ilan Lior | Sep. 10, 2014 | 4:23 AM ...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron made a last minute appeal to Scottish voters on Wednesday to reject independence in a referendum next week as polls showed the campaign on a knife edge. Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper ahead of a ...

Hard to believe, but $30 billion is the value that was wiped off Apple's market value in the few hours after CEO Tim Cook unveiled the latest iPhones and the company's “next big thing,” its Apple Watch. At 1.58 pm on Tuesday, moments before the big Apple ...

Photo. An exhibit for the Minecraft game in New York last year. The goal of the game is to craft, or build, structures inside its 16-bit worlds.Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times. Related Links. Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational ...

BEIRUT — An explosion tore through a secret meeting of one of Syria's strongest and most enduring rebel groups on Tuesday, killing a dozen of its top leaders, including its head, and striking another blow against the forces seeking to topple President Bashar ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 09: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) speaks about protecting students from sexual predators during a news conference on Capitol Hill, September 9, 2014 in Washington, DC. Sen Toomey and other members of Congress called on ...

Is no independent PC gaming phenomenon safe from the enticing billions of massive technology conglomerates? Oculus sold to Facebook, Amazon bought Twitch, and a new report in the Wall Street Journal claims that Microsoft is in the final stages of a deal ...

IRAQ-CONFLICT Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters target ISIS positions near Mosul in northern Iraq on Tuesday. JM LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images. He'll reveal his choices to the nation Wednesday night. To understand why President Obama has such a tough ...

Within hours of Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) taking the wraps off its smartwatch, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA:US), the video-title publisher, is already working on ways to use the health-tracking features of the device to connect to games. The company is considering how ...

Months after closing its $7 billion deal for Nokia's handset business, Microsoft is eyeing another major acquisition. According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, the company is near a deal to scoop up video game studio Mojang AB, creator of the hit ...