Fatalities in Swiss Alps, Jura decline in 2012
The Swiss Alpine Club says the number of deaths in the mountains of the Swiss Alps and the Jura fell by a third in 2012 from the previous year due to ...
A guide to Britain's new media regulation regime
The British government is setting up a new media watchdog to tame the country's scandal-tainted press. The move comes after a phone hacking scandal ...
2 shipping firms admit to illegal ocean dumping
Two international shipping firms from Germany and Cyprus pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction and other charges in connection with what the U.S.
Scientists find universe is 80 million years older
A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more ...
Vatican's communications site runs Batman story
One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the ...
APNewsBreak: IOC to retest Turin Olympic samples
With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ...
Belgian wins Norway's $1 million Abel math prize
Belgian-born Pierre Deligne has won this year's $1-million Abel Prize in mathematics for his contributions to algebraic geometry and their ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...
Researchers publish improved Neanderthal genome
Researchers in Germany said Tuesday they have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome and are making it freely available ...
British climber, son fall to death in French Alps
Police say a British climber and his 12-year-old son have been found dead after plunging several hundred yards down a mountain in the French Alps.
BP sues to block Gulf spill settlement payments
BP sued Friday to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst ...
Ex-tabloid editor quizzed in phone hacking probe
The former editor of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid was questioned on Friday by police investigating phone hacking, British media reported. The Press ...
Social media editor charged in hacking conspiracy
A deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be "business as usual" despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group ...
Reuters journalist charged with hacking conspiracy
A journalist has been charged by federal authorities with conspiring with the notorious hacking group "Anonymous" to deface a story on the Los Angeles ...
Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what ...
A closer look at the Higgs boson
Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last ...
UK phone hacking arrests at new media: Mirror
British police made four arrests for suspected phone hacking Thursday, the first time that top editors and journalists at the Mirror group have been ...
UN: Sharks risk extinction
A U.N. agency says shark populations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea "have dropped dramatically" over the past two centuries because of overfishing
ESA, Roscosmos sign deal on Mars exploration
The European Space Agency says it has signed an agreement with its Russian counterpart to work together toward two missions to Mars. The partnership ...
Shark wrestler's heroics land him in hot water
A 62-year-old British man who became an Internet sensation after wrestling with a shark on an Australian beach says he was fired after his employer ...
Worker: Rig was bustling before BP well blowout
A worker who survived the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon testified Wednesday that a flurry of activity on the drilling rig hindered his ...
Researchers find German-made spyware across globe
The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some ...
Europe gets 1st fix from its own satnav system
The European Space Agency says it has received the first location fix from its own satellite navigation system. The Galileo system is seen as Europe's ...
Mysterious bacterium found in Antarctic lake
A new form of microbial life has been found in water samples taken from a giant freshwater lake hidden under kilometers of Antarctic ice, Russian ...
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