Researchers from the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Sciences and Harvard Medical School have developed an innovative way of tracking the nation's mood using tweets.

saying it is nothing more than a contrived imaginary ”myth” — in other words, an elaborate conspiracy.

Do we really have rights or does the government just grant us privileges?

Got it from David, my in-law *

A government official says all 152 people on board a plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.

A nursing assistant with two grown-up children is set to appear in court in France today accused of systematically killing at least eight of her own newborn babies.

This just might be the saddest news you will hear today—a giant panda, living in China's Jinan Zoo, died after accidently being gassed with carbon monoxide and chlorine.

German state authorities on Wednesday accused the organizer of last weekend's Love Parade techno festival of major security breaches which may have led to the crush that killed 21 people and injured more than 500.

France's first lady, a former supermodel turned songstress, is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."

A judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue.

Christie’s Hong Kong will be presenting a stand-alone wine sale of the SK Networks Collection on September 18 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Owned by a Korea-based global business conglomerate and a dealer in wine business, the collection feature...

Cricket teams from Afghanistan and Hong Kong are to appear in a club-level event in Pakistan, in a tentative step towards reviving the sport in the violence-hit country, an official said Wednesday.

A Merrill Lynch banker and others working in the financial industry have been prosecuted for taking part in an underground Texas hold 'em poker game in the southern Chinese financial centre Hong Kong.

A rare luxury residential site in Hong Kong's upmarket Peak district was sold at a government auction Wednesday for 10.4 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$1.34 billion), in line with market expectations, the latest sign the city's robust property mark...

Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. boosted the size of its initial public offering to about $20.8 billion after selling more stock in Hong Kong, taking it one step closer to becoming the largest ever first-time share sale.

Secret files leaked about the war in Afghanistan have revealed tantalising glimpses of Osama Bin Laden despite public CIA claims that they are clueless as to the whereabouts of the Al Qaeda boss.

A Bosnian man who claims he is being targeted by extraterrestrials after a series of meteorite strikes on his house has now been hit by a sixth space rock in the space of a few years.

A gel that can help decayed teeth grow back in just weeks may mean an end to fillings. The gel, which is being developed by scientists in France, works by prompting cells in teeth to start multiplying. They then form healthy new tooth tissue that ...

Director Oliver Stone has been forced to make a grovelling apology over an anti-Semitic outburst.The double Academy Award winner claimed that the Russians suffered more during the Second World War and that there was a Jewish 'domination of the med...

It is not the sort of get-up you'd expect the Pope to sport. But Pope Benedict XVI broke with tradition by wearing a baseball cap as he went for a stroll around his summer residence on Sunday.

Lady Gaga collaborated with London-based artist Stuart Semple for her WestEast cover. The Hong Kong publication chose the “Alejandro” singer for the front of its summer “Art” issue.

A businessman buried £140,000 in his aunt’s grave in an attempt to dodge his taxes.

Protests over land grabs, industrial pollution and poor work conditions often rattle the Chinese authorities. Now add to that outrage over language policy. More than 1,000 people gathered Sunday in Guangzhou, in southern China, to demonstrate agai...

Several teenagers were taken in for questioning in connection with a fire near the capital’s southwestern edge that destroyed 1,000 dunams (100 hectares) of forest, forced the partial evacuation of the moshavim of Ora, Aminadav and Even Sapir, and...

Pooping pigeons forced the Kings of Leon to abandon their St. Louis, Missouri, concert after just three songs Friday night, the rock band's management said Saturday

A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.

Back in the 1950s, some U.S. congressman would respond to letters from nutty people by returning it to the writer with a note that 'some idiot has been writing letters using your name.'

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Bacardi Travel Retail Asia Pacific has launched Bombay Sapphire Revelation, its HK$1.6 million (US$200,000) crystal decanter, at Hong Kong International Airport. This is the first time Revelation has travelled to this part of Asia. The launch is i...

We've all been there. Our cell phone or laptop battery dies at the worst time. The owner of Tremont Electric has developed a tool that not only solves that problem, but might just put Cleveland on the earth-friendly map.

Tesla Motors says it has delivered its Roadster electric car to the first customers in Japan, Hong Kong, Poland, Turkey and Canada.

An annual pilgrimage

Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram.

Under where? Talk about unmentionable. Victoria's Secret had to close for a few hours this week after a bed bug sighting in the store on Lexington Avenue at 58th Street.

A Calgary mother won’t spend a day in jail for killing her teenage daughter with a head scarf — a decision that has prompted outrage.

Hong Kong free-to-air broadcast Asia Television Ltd. suspended CEO Nancy Hu from her post, following a board decision Tuesday, Hong Kong media reported.

Taking online college courses is, to many, like eating at McDonald's: convenient, fast and filling. You may not get filet mignon, but afterward you're just as full. Now the University of California wants to jump into online education for undergrad...

Police in Australia are investigating the poisoning of seven million vegetable seedlings, including tomatoes, aubergines and melons.

An Indian woman gave birth to a baby in the lavatory of an international passenger plane and tried to dispose of it down the toilet, media reports in New Delhi said on Thursday.