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James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the companies that publish its British newspapers including the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking sandal, regulatory filings show.

The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group.

Rare yellow diamond will go up for auction.

The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. threatened to spread to other titles on Friday, as sources said a journalist at the Sun newspaper had been arrested over allegations of police bribery.

An uncommon, all-red aurora borealis or Northern Light appeared over the skies of the city of Independence in Missouri at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 24.

In case you missed it, here are some photos and videos of Monday's Northern Lights show as it moved into the sky view of southern states in the U.S.

American singer and actor, Jennifer Lopez, reportedly broke down and started crying, after performing a few of her more famous romantic numbers, at her Mohegan Sun concert in Montville, Conn.

The satellite could fall pretty much anywhere between 53 degrees North and South latitudes, which contains much of the Earths land area.

Abundant rains punctuated by sunny spells last week in most of Ivory Coast's key cocoa regions have boosted the main crop, but heavy rains in some areas have prevented harvesting and may damage quality by preventing proper drying, farmers said on Monday.

With the return of the Premier League, Manchester United's trip to Liverpool takes the limelight this week, but there's football happening elsewhere in England too. Here, you can get briefed on all the action.

In a new study, scientists have demonstrated a link between a recurring drop in solar radiation and the cold climate of the UK, northern Europe and parts of America.

A link between decadal solar variability and winter climate in the UK, northern Europe and parts of America has been demonstrated by scientists according to a new study.

China has marked the 100th anniversary of the revolution that ended two millennia of nearly unbroken imperial rule.

The European Space Agency is planning to send a probe closer to the sun than has ever been attempted. The ambitious space mission is expected to happen in 2017, ESA delegates meeting in Paris announced recently.

FBR Capital Markets attended Oracle Corp.’s financial analyst meeting and its annual user conference OpenWorld this week.

In the coming years, as a result of changes, in solar activity, radiation hazards are likely to increase for both air travelers and astronauts.

At a distance of about 13,000 light-years from Earth, it is the closest yellow hypergiant found to date and new observations show it shines some 500,000 times more brightly than the Sun.

A gigantic solar flare that erupted Saturday just won't quit and is forecasted to continue to dazzle sky watchers in Asia and Europe with aurora light shows Tuesday evening.

Particles that were blasted by the sun during a powerful solar flare on Saturday have reached Earth, which will illuminate the Northern Lights in some regions and may also interrupt radio and GPS signals.

Researchers at Princeton University and New York University have developed a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is believe to make up dark matter.

In 1977, the blockbuster sci-fi movie Star Wars showed a spectacular scene: the lead character Luke Skywalker walks into a binary sunset in the planet Tatooine. Thirty-four years later, such a scene has become a reality. The only difference is that the planet is not called Tatooine but is officially called Kepler-16b.