Two elderly women accused of killing two homeless men to collect millions of dollars in insurance payouts were convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to murder, and one of them was convicted of the murders themselves.

CCTV footage allegedly showing key members of a terrorist cell preparing for attacks on passenger jets was shown to a jury today. Evidence filmed at a series of shops shows the men buying and considering equipment for their deadly plot, a court was...

Shares in UK financial data firm Experian have risen more than 8% after it unveiled better-than-expected sales. The Nottingham-based firm said organic sales in the six months to March rose 2%, against expectations of 1% growth. There were worries that...

When a member of the secretive Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints turned up in the sleepy Texas town of Eldorado four years ago and paid $700,000 (£350,000) for an abandoned exotic-animal farm on its outskirts comprising 1,700 acres of prairie...

A vintage engine steamed into Berlin on Sunday, hauling carriages filled with photos of smiling children and poignant last letters to loved ones — the images and words of the youngest victims of the Nazi Holocaust

After a lifetime spent digging for black clams in the swamps that line the coast here, Clojilda Velasco remembers when she could count on finding 400 a day. Now she’s lucky if she gets 100. But she still shares when one of the other women comes up...

Recent media accounts dwell on the destruction and loss of life ensuing from the most recent uprising in the Tibet Autonomous Region and bordering Chinese provinces with predominately Tibetan populations. However, few have given much historical...

The “zero tolerance” policy at some school and in some states, reaches levels of complete incompetence when a 6 years gets written up as a sexual offender for copying what another kid did and playfully smacking little Katherine DeLeon on the...

A lot of people are scared of going under the knife for a variety of fears which grip them. That’s why scientists are constantly trying to find a way to create surgical methods with lower risk factors.

Google’s data infrastructure is massive and spread across the world. All that Web crawling, indexing, and searching takes enormous amounts of computing power, not to mention everyone pounding away at Gmail, Google Apps, Blogger, Google Reader, and...