Chinese students develop a microbial fuel cell that can generate 80 hours of electricity by adding a spoonful of sugar. Sharon Reich reports.
Police and protesters clash in Kosovo for a second day in a deepening crisis over relations with former ruler, Serbia. Sean Carberry reports.
Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats. As Sara Hemrajani reports, there are fears more security threats could damage the airline industry.
Chinese students develop a microbial fuel cell that can generate 80 hours of electricity by adding a spoonful of sugar. Sharon Reich reports.
Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats. As Sara Hemrajani reports, there are fears more security threats could damage the airline industry.
(Reuters) - The University of North Dakota said on Wednesday it will adopt the "Fighting Hawks" as its new nickname after retiring the "Fighting Sioux," which was banned under a national college sports policy that deemed such names and symbols racially offensive.
In a striking shift, President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are embarking on a tentative path toward closer ties and possible military cooperation, as the bitter rift over Ukraine gives way to common...
The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has started cutting back on nuclear programs, which could have been reengineered into making weapons, in line with a deal between six world powers.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish telecoms group Telefonica said on Wednesday it was considering halting investments in its Spanish fiber optic operations after the country's antitrust watchdog recommended it should share the network in some areas.
The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local):
While the World Anti-Doping Agency geared up to suspend Russia's anti-doping operation, calls for further investigation into that country's entire sports program came from athletes and leaders outside of track and...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian air force on Wednesday conducted a 'mass strike' against Islamic State targets across Syria using long-range bombers and cruise missiles, Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency.
A Spanish judge has asked police to notify him if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot in Spain, suggesting a probe could be reopened of the 2010 Israeli attack on an aid boat heading to Gaza that left nine...
British soccer star David Beckham has been an international sex symbol for nearly two decades, but he says he's still flattered to be named People magazine's 30th-anniversary Sexiest Man Alive.
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday urged his countrymen to defy terrorists by going back to their normal way of life, visiting cafes, museums and sports stadiums, and not caving in to fear and xenophobia.
The latest news as hundreds of thousands make their way across Europe in search of safety and a better life. All times local.
Amid gunfire and explosions, police raided a suburban Paris apartment where they believed the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was holed up. The siege ended Wednesday with two deaths and seven arrests but no...
The presumed mastermind of last week's devastating attacks in Paris once bragged about being so slippery he could move undetected between Syria and Belgium, his home country. On Wednesday he was targeted in a police...
The Islamic State group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sought to reassure regional economic and political leaders that his government will keep the world's No. 2 economy growing.
MOSCOW, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moualem will visit Russia next week for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about his country's crisis and the struggle against terrorism, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
Some Republicans are pushing back against aggressive opposition in their party to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S., in fresh evidence of a rift within the GOP that threatens to complicate the party's outreach to...
Many voters don't have the money to donate to political candidates or don't care enough to bother. But what if the government gave them $100 to dole out as they saw fit?
State investigators looking into the death of an unarmed black Minneapolis man shot by police during a scuffle are trying to determine whether he was restrained at the time, as some witnesses allege.
Cleanup began Wednesday in Washington state after a powerful storm killed three people, cut power to more than 300,000 residents and flooded rivers.
