Avaneesh Pandey

In a report based on eyewitness accounts, field investigations and satellite images, the rights group said that Kurds were waging a "revenge" campaign against Arabs for their perceived support to ISIS.

Falling oil prices are driving the need for creative ways to fund renewable technology, a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum said.

Hawking and Musk were among those identified by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation as members of a “loose coalition” of “AI alarmists.”

The move is aimed at ensuring that benefits of technology are not limited to only the wealthy, the U.S. tech giant announced Tuesday.

Whatever is causing the star KIC 8462852 to behave in an inexplicable and bizarre manner, it's not a swarm of comets or an alien Dyson sphere, a new study posits.

If the body count is confirmed, the attacks in the Syrian city of Deir el-Zour would mark one of the bloodiest days in the conflict.

The restive city, which is the capital of the border province of Nangarhar, has been frequently targeted by militants in the past.

The lifting of economic sanctions “has opened a new chapter” in Iran's ties with the world, President Hassan Rouhani said, in a statement released Sunday.

If confirmed, the discovery would provide scientists an opportunity to test the theory that supermassive black holes evolve from these lower-mass seeds.

With almost all the ballots counted, the 59-year-old opposition candidate Tsai Ing-wen was leadng with 56.2 percent of the vote.

The temporary moratorium will remain in place until the government completes a review of coal mining's impact on the environment.

Amid reports the infection could cause brain damage in newborns, the CDC urged pregnant women to avoid travel to affected areas in Central and South America.

The announcement was made just hours after official figures released by the central bank showed that inflation had surged to a staggering 141.5 percent.

Thursday’s Paris-style attacks, the first one by the group in Indonesia, have confirmed fears that citizens are returning from conflict zones to launch attacks at home.

The next glacial period, which, in a human-free planet, would have started 50,000 years from now, is not likely to arrive for another 100,000 years, a new study suggests.

The U.S. lender, impacted by dropping profitability, may lay off between 5 to 10 percent of its fixed-income traders and salespersons.

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday it would track deals in Manhattan and Miami-Dade County.

However, granting asylum to the Syrian president would not be as difficult as sheltering U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Russian leader said.

The ruling, which comes just days after Kuwait withdrew its ambassador from Iran over the latter’s diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia, risks escalating tensions in the region.

Supercomputer Cheyenne, funded by the National Science Foundation and the state of Wyoming, will be over twice as powerful as its predecessor.

The Iranian government said Monday that it filled in the core of the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, which will now be reconfigured to yield only small amounts of plutonium.

The financing would help Uber in its uphill battle to capture market share in China from its local competitor Didi Kuaidi.

The European Commission ordered Belgium to recover over $760 million in back taxes from 35 companies that had benefited from the "illegal" tax scheme.

Chinese shares fell over 5 percent Monday, as confusion over the yuan’s direction and the country’s growth continued to deter investors.

Stephen Hawking and his colleagues offer a new answer to the question of what happens to information sucked in by black holes.

Publishers of the heavily annotated version, published in Germany for the first time in 70 years, are struggling to keep up with demand.

The California firm said it is forming a company to develop a blood test that will detect cancers long before symptoms arise.

The approval was widely expected as FedEX had announced in October that European regulators would not challenge the transaction.

On Friday, Asian and European markets traded mostly higher, capping a week that saw over $2 trillion wiped from global assets.