Twitter may be known as one of the most prominent social media tools to hit the web. However, the social networking service may be useful for more than keeping in touch with friends and sharing information.
Alaska polar bears are suffering from a mysterious illness that causes fur loss and skin lesions. The illness appears similar to a disease that killed over 60 seals last summer.
An F-18 military fighter jet crashed into an apartment building near a small community in Virginia Beach on Friday afternoon. The two-man crew reportedly ejected before the plane careened into the ground just in between a grade school and an animal rescue center.
Hundreds more American Airlines flights were canceled on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the wake of Tuesday's powerful tornado-riddled storm.
A US Coast Guard cutter used cannon fire Thursday to sink a Japanese fishing vessel that got washed out to sea by the March 11 tsunami. The Ryou-Un Maru was sunken 180 miles west of the US and Canadian borders off Southeast Alaskan coast.
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei's self-broadcasting webpage is taken down just days after its launch
Japan plans to build the nation's largest geothermal power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, the location of the massive earthquake and tsunami which led to last year's nuclear disaster.
Japan's strongest storm since 1959 caused travel chaos on Tuesday, grounding over 600 flights, halting rail service, and causing major traffic jams.
After the Mumbai attacks, Saeed and other LeT members were arrested by Pakistani police, but later released on appeal.
New car, truck and bus sales shot up 78.2 percent in March compared to a year earlier in Japan, as government subsidies buoy-up the industry and the nation moves into a fuller recovery from last year's March 11 tsunami and earthquake.
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during economic crisis and a devasting earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, President Felipe Calderon announced.
Retail sales in Japan increased 3.5 percent year-on-year in February, supported by subsidies on cars and higher fuel prices, according to data from the Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Facebook (NYSE: FB), the No. 1 social network website, will stop insider trades of its shares Friday because its initial public offering roadshow will begin next week.
Asian shares eased for a second day in a row Thursday, as investors limited their risk exposures on concerns about growth prospects in the world's two largest economies, the United States and China.
Bulgaria cites a lack of funding for not pursuing a planned nuclear power plant at Belene
The insurance market listed the litany of disasters in its annual report, which included claims from flooding in Australia in January, the February earthquake in New Zealand, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March and the floods in Thailand.
A senior executive at Invisible Children--creators of the viral Kony 2012 activism campaign--recorded a video in which he jokes, while appearing to be heavily drinking, about stealing money from a 2010 $1 million award, some of which was intended for earthquake aid to Haiti.
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.25 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.29 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.36 percent at 0920 GMT.
Asian stock markets surged Tuesday, following gains in the Wall Street overnight as market-friendly comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke boosted sentiment.
The move leaves 53 of Japan's 54 reactors out of service. The last operational reactor, Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari No.3, will be switched off for maintenance May 5.
Growth is likely to be weak in the near term for New Zealand as the temporary boost from the Rugby World Cup unwinds, according to Capital Economics.
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Chile on Sunday at 7:37 p.m. local time (6:37 p.m. EDT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At a depth of 21.6 miles (34.8 kilometers), the quake's epicenter was 136 miles (219 kilometers) south-southwest of the capital city of Santiago, the USGS reported.