Drivers in most of the United States and some of the UK can find out where the police speed traps and so-called red-light cameras are on the Internet — for free.

Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night became the seventh Prime Minister in nearly three decades to win a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.

If contradicting research has you wondering if coffee is healthy or harmful, the answer is simple: it depends. A recent study showed a benefit from drinking java on a population level. But it’s difficult to make individual recommendations for...

A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday. Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police...

Liu Ming adds Beijing Olympic rings and an “Olympic torch” tattoo to his nearly covered body.

Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could fuel support for more tobacco regulation. “Menthol...

US-based private equity investor WL Ross has agreed to invest $80m in Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet, the carrier has said. SpiceJet is India’s second-largest domestic low-cost carrier with 10% of the market share.

A French air hostess will become one of Europe’s pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth’s atmosphere.

Chocolate may be a comfort in troubled times but even this affordable luxury is feeling the pinch of slower economic growth in the United States.

When Bruce Springsteen spoke out against the Berlin Wall at the biggest concert in East German history in 1988, no one in the crowd of 160,000 had the faintest idea that the symbol of the Cold War would soon be history.