India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has reported that it has investigated approximately 18,000 cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in the country since…

On Thursday, Amazon, the online retail giant, announced that, contrary to analysts’ predictions and after months of financial losses, it had turned a profit in…

The United Nations reports that we have 15 years to avert a full-blown water crisis and that, by 2030, demand for water will outstrip supply…

An efficient solution to a historic drought, or an environmentally risky pact with the devil? That's the question raised by California farmers who are irrigating…

This is part II of a series on the relationship between the eugenics movement and modern genetics. It examines whether true health and true happiness…

Friends, who happen to be respected left-field musicians, were invited to Austria to perform a couple of gigs and film some music videos paid for by an Austrian arts grant.…

‘Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour? When the storm is ended shall we find How softly but swiftly they have sidled…

The report into Israel’s war on Gaza last summer by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) found that both Israel and Hamas committed war…

Young people lack confidence and skills in the kitchen, with many considering microwaving a pizza to be cooking according to a study. They are also…

There have only been 9 days this year when the police have not killed somebody. Some news outlets put the number as high as 500…

The International Energy Agency on Monday warned temperatures could jump by as much as 4.3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century and urged…

In what is being called the most definitive assessment yet of national emissions pledges aimed at meeting global climate goals, the International Energy Agency on Monday released a major…