Avaneesh Pandey

Researchers announced Wednesday that they had successfully transmitted quantum information over a record-breaking distance of more than 60 miles.

In 2013, just over 1,000 coal mines were operating, as cheap natural gas and weak global demand continued to take a toll on coal production.

According to a new study, Americans might be dumping more than twice as much trash in landfills as previous estimates suggest.

European stocks plummeted sharply at the open Tuesday, as investors continued to hunt for clues to the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans.

Volkswagen announced it has set aside $7.3 billion to cover costs related to its emissions scandal, while its stock fell nearly 19 percent on the Frankfurt exchange Tuesday.

The severely criticized policy would require users to save plain-text versions of encrypted data for 90 days.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his views on the economy, cybersecurity and China's territorial claims.

The technique is currently embroiled in moral and ethical controversies, with detractors raising concerns that it could lead to creation of "designer babies."

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi swore in a new cabinet Saturday, a week after the previous ministers resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal.

Jose Ramon Cabanas, a veteran diplomat who ran Cuba’s de facto embassy in Washington since 2012, was named the country's first ambassador to the U.S. in 54 years.

In a statement, the university said it was investigating a threat made against it through a social media account allegedly affiliated to the militant group.

Approximately 100,000 years from now -- a blink of an eye in the cosmic scale -- two supermassive black holes in the Virgo constellation will collide and merge.

The British payment processing company, owned by private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital, currently processes about 31 million transactions daily.

Eleven GOP leaders, led by Rep. Chris Gibson, have signed a resolution urging action on climate change, in a major break from the party line.

Earlier Friday, the Bank of Japan's concerns over China's economy pulled the Nikkei 225 index down nearly 2 percent.

The Republican presidential hopeful told Fox News host Sean Hannity that it is a "bad idea" to allow Syrian and Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. without adequate screening.

In a span of just four decades, global populations of marine mammals, fish, birds and reptiles have halved, a new study by the WWF revealed.

A three-decade long civil war, which claimed about 100,000 lives, pitted the majority Sinhalese against a Tamil rebel group seeking a separate homeland in the country's north.

The Shanghai Composite index rallied the most in three weeks, as world markets await the outcome of the two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Jeff Bezos-founded company has remained tight-lipped about its plans since it was founded in 2000.

The country, part of an international coalition targeting ISIS in Iraq, launched its first airstrikes against the group in Syria.

According to a U.N.-backed study, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification might displace 50 million people within a decade.

The amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada mountains in California has been severely depleted as a result of successive years of lower-than-expected precipitation.

The Shanghai Composite Index reported its biggest two-day loss in three weeks while other Asian markets traded lower.

The Viktor Orban-led government also enforced new laws under which refugees entering the country illegally could face jail terms and deportation.

In comments made Tuesday before his swearing-in ceremony, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged the Australian government to have an "economic vision."

"If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top," New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern said in a statement released Thursday.

Investors remained cautious ahead of next week’s crucial meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, when a decision on hiking interest rates is expected.

The capsule, designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, might just become the first privately built spacecraft to take humans to space.