A computer hacker has demonstrated a technique to remotely make an ATM spit out cash using the internet. New Zealand researcher Barnaby Jack publicly showed off the "ATM jackpotting" technique at...

my financial journey in life , I made a great number of mistakes. In this ten part series which runs from July 19 to July 30, I’m going to focus on ten of my worst mistakes and the difficulties and...

A man was arrested for impaired driving after his car ran a stop sign and was hit by another vehicle in the Finch Ave. and Bathurst St. area. (MANNY RODRIGUES PHOTO) TORONTO - A man is accused of...

"They are a little below the elephant in size and… their strength and speed are extraordinary. They spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied." Thus Julius Caesar described the...

Mars . Not now, but when he's older and ready to swap life on Earth for one on the red planet. "It would be a good place to retire," he says in all seriousness. Normally, this would be the time to...

Elon Musk, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of SpaceX, with his Dragon space capsule at the company's headquarters in California. Musk is an entrepreneur who made his fortune...

If we can stop the physical deterioration that comes with age, molecular biologist Aubrey de Grey sees no reason why human beings shouldn't live to be...

Pulitzer Prize -­winning book, “The Beak of the Finch,” Jonathan Weiner followed Peter and Rosemary Grant, biologists who had spent years studying birds in the Galápagos...

The editorial noted the general public's increasing skepticism about human-caused warming. One way to allay the public's concern is to remove funding from scientists who are unwilling or unable to...

A stock trader works at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in May. Several schools of economists are struggling to explain what's happening in the world...

A Cleveland woman plans to file for divorce after finding Facebook photos of her husband marrying another woman at Disney World. WESH news in Orlando reports that the Ohio woman, who didn't want to...

A British theme park has designated a section of "family friendly" rooms as well as an area of "adults only" suites at their two hotels after families complained that they couldn't sleep after...

Last Updated: July 31. 2010 11:51PM UAE / July 31. 2010 7:51PM GMT ABU DHABI // A group of students from the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT) have flown to Taiwan for advanced training on...

Published Date: August 01, 2010 Making an album about such seemingly simple concepts as food or ice cream trucks might seem like a fool's errand, but for Brooklyn indie duo One Ring Zero, those...

Holding flares, workers of steelmaker Arcelor-Mittal join thousands of civil servants as part of a one-day strike in 2008 in Marseille. Unions don't lower productivity but they do hurt job...

An Indianapolis police officer is recovering after trying to stop a fight that turned out to be fake. Local news channel WTHR reports that the officer was invited to give a presentation to a church...

Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from prison on bond pending the outcome of his appeal, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the "honest services" law, an appeals court ruled. (John...

Kanye West isn't the only celebrity that joined Twitter this week. NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2, is getting ready to work on the International Space Station in November but it's already tweeting about...

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke testifies July 22 before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues are weighing new steps to...

Officials in a town northeast of London have banned inflatable swimming pools for posing a "fire risk." The Daily Mail reports that a housing association in Romford, a suburban town of 36,500 said...

Accused of espionage and of crossing illegally into Iran, which says it has "evidence" of contact with US intelligence agencies, they have been in prison ever since.But the three friends...

Lucy Viner-Mood (right) and Lois Gibson (left) were described as "feral" after luring Georgia Fenn to their flat before subjecting her to a ferocious 18-hour assault. (AFP/Handout) Two British women...

Members of rescue service who attended to victims of the Love Parade stampede, react during a memorial service in Salvator Church (Salvatorkirche) in Duisburg July 31, 2010. (REUTERS/EPD/Friedrich...

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian police opened fire on Saturday to disperse thousands of people protesting against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing a child and...

We are a group of make-up artists from two of the country(s) prestigious schools, School of Fashion and the Arts (SoFA) and Center for Aesthetic Studies (CAS). We believe that every girl/lady is...

— A team of NIH-funded researchers has successfully regenerated rabbit joints using a cutting edge process to form the joint inside the body, or in vivo. Regenerative in vivo procedures are...

Fear of loss tourism fuels release SANTA LUCIA, Cuba - Being trapped on a tropical island for three months likely sounds like a dream come true to most people. But when you're only 19, the island is...

Actor Lwam Ghebrehariat plays Shareef Abdelhaleem -- a convicted member of the so-called Toronto 18 -- in Homegrown, which opens Aug. 5 at Theatre Passe Muraille. TORONTO - Tax dollars from the very...

Mourners embrace after the funeral for Mercedes Pepper in Medicine Hat Friday. (Lyle Aspinall, QMI Agency) MEDICINE HAT - The short life of a little "princess" was recounted in a few dozen photos...

TORONTO - Stewardship Ontario -- the government-created body that brought Ontarians the botched eco-fee plan -- has signed a confidential battery recycling deal with an American-based outfit that...

Brian Moran, 20, is still on the lam. WINNIPEG - Two inmates were accidentally released from the Headingley Correctional Centre in a two-day span this week. One is back in custody, while the other...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton convict who admitted pummelling a "notorious" child molester, stabbing him with a pen and biting him on the cheek has been sent to jail for eight months. And while Victor...

Russell Johnson. TORONTO - The monster will be staying where he belongs. After much worry, stress and yet another pilgrimage to Penetang, they received the outcome they'd hoped for: Russell Johnson,...

Posted on: Saturday, 31 July 2010, 06:25 CDT Louisiana said that it has reopened wide swaths of state fishing ground that were closed in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after seafood...

Learning Greek is a very valuable intellectual exercise, and I think that the teaching of Latin and Greek should be encouraged in schools. However, the idea that it will help children to read is...

Lu and his team studied a gene called LRRK2. A mutant form of LRRK2, common in Jews of European descent and people from north Africa, is known to be involved in the development of Parkinson's, but...

GAZA - An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas military commander and rocket maker in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group that rules the Palestinian territory said on Saturday. Issa Batran was...

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret U.S. documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their...

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Friday said he had deployed infantry and air force units following Colombian charges last week that his country harbored leftist guerrillas. Chavez severed...

TEHRAN - An earthquake in northeastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported, and a slightly stronger tremor struck central Iran on Saturday. The first quake...

Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon wanted to see how search engines could highlight relationships, so opted to study the 100 US senators in Congress in 2006. He used Google to...

David Barriopedro at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and colleagues were intrigued by studies showing the tides followed an 11-year cycle, just like the sun, showing peaks when the sunspots were...

(John J. Kim/Sun-Times) Oliver's father worked his way to independence from sharecropping and vowed that his children would live well by obtaining higher educations. Oliver has enrolled her...

To Help Fulfill Its Mission of Preparing Students for College and a Purposeful Life, the Carlsbad Independent School Receives Grants from William H. Donner Foundation and Lupe Murchison...

The Atma Study is a movie that will sponsor an investigation into the after life. This research and the true stories that emerge from the scientific study will be the basis for a groundbreaking film...

SAN RAMON — Armed with a cannon constructed from a PVC pipe, Dan Lucas launched a burning sock across the room in the name of science.The chemistry teacher was demonstrating — in Mr....