Eighteen people suffered minor injuries on Wednesday in a slow-speed crash between two Amtrak passenger trains at a railway station in Northern California, authorities said.
Eighty five weapons stored in a warehouse intended for use in Brad Pitt's World War Z film were seized by a SWAT team near Budapest in Hungary on Monday, because they had not been suitably modified according to the Hungarian law, authorities said Tuesday.
Now comes the latest -- a three-day outage of BlackBerry services including email and Internet across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India plus some spotty outages in the U.S. Here's where you start to feel for the company: While the RIM and BlackBerry have been all but dead in the U.S, life remained for the company, its products, and services in these other countries.
Scientists claimed to have cracked the genetic DNA of the worst bubonic plague in Europe's history, the Black Death, for the first time after analyzing the teeth of more than 700 year-old skeletons.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion faced the prospect of a compensation bill from network providers on Thursday as the world's dominant provider of mobile email struggled for a fourth day with service glitches.
A new study has found that the prehistoric predator Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur was even bigger and heavier than it was estimated previously.
Oil slipped Thursday, with Brent crude snapping a six-day rally, after trade data from China pointed to slower demand in the world's second-largest oil consumer.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81-day detention earlier this year caused an international outcry, has been named the art world's most powerful figure in a new ranking.
Scientists have managed to map the entire DNA of the Black Death's bubonic plague from the teeth of four 650-year-old skeletons, the remains of victims buried in London's plague pits.
Einstein's general theory of relativity came under attack last month when physicists reported that neutrinos can travel faster than light.
Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed Operation Hackerazzi.
The London film festival opens on Wednesday with a red carpet premiere of 360, starring Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law.
Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed Operation Hackerazzi.
The recent weakness of the rand will benefit South African exporters and is positive for the economy, the treasurer general of the ruling African National Congress said on Wednesday.
Fourth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga suffered an unexpected defeat in his opening match at the Shanghai Masters Wednesday when he was beaten 6-7 6-4 6-4 by Japanese Kei Nishikori.
Significant oil reserves were only discovered in 2006, suggesting Uganda could one day become a dominant petroleum producer in Africa.
The U.S. State Department issued a Worldwide Travel Alert on Tuesday due to the Iran terror plot.
The United States stormed to gold in the women's team event at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday to emphatically put down a marker for next year's London Olympics.
Hungarian police have seized a stockpile of weapons that was shipped to the Hungarian capital for the production of a film about zombies starring Brad Pitt, a film crew member said on Tuesday.
A seven-seat space taxi backed by NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station will make a high-altitude test flight next summer, officials said on Tuesday.
World Monuments Fund has released its 2012 Watch list of 67 cultural-heritage sights at risk.
Milla Jovovich has a long list of talents. Her talents have helped to make her famous, but her style makes her stand out.
