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Scientists have been on the hunt for the elusive sterile neutrino. Is it real?

Eleven newborn babies are dead after a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a Baghdad hospital on Wednesday.

Students worried about finances are more likely to be depressed and be alcoholics, which can, in turn, make their finances worse.

A new report accounts for groups that came before, were inspired by or declared themselves loyal to the Islamic State group.

Soon after its launch in the United States, the Nintendo-designed game faced negative reports of teenagers getting lost or being involved in accidents.

Tourist arrivals to Paris fall by 10 percent early this year compared to 2015, according to figures from the Paris region's tourism office, dealing a blow to major sights and businesses who are seeing less visitors.

The Piltdown Man “fossil,” which later turned out to be a elaborate patchwork of human and orangutan bones, was perhaps the most audacious hoax in the history of science.

Researchers from Yale University found that reading books can increase a person’s life span by as much as two years.

The group is believed to be confined to three or four of the over 400 districts in Afghanistan.

Social media users erupted in anger over the mistaken perception that Google deleted the Palestine label from its mapping service.

Russian weapons, including rocket launchers and air defense systems, are more powerful than those used by the British troops, a leaked report has revealed.

Comprising over 1,000 high-resolution images, this is the single-largest dump of images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRise camera.

Seven other babies and 29 women were rescued and transferred to another hospital.

The departure of Fugro Discovery leaves Fugro Equator and Dong Hai Jiu 101 to complete the remainder of the search operation.

A conviction would definitively remove Dilma Rousseff from office and confirm that interim President Michel Temer will serve out the rest of her term through 2018.

The Gaofen-3 satellite was launched aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket Wednesday morning local time.

The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion because opponents of Rousseff, need only a simple majority in the 81-seat senate to put her on trial.

The official on a U.S.-based assignment for NATO is being recalled by the Turkish government in the wake of last month’s failed military coup.

Air Crash Support Group Australia has accused Malaysia of not investigating purses, clothing and other fragments found near Madagascar.

New research suggests rising temperatures are responsible for the decline in fish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika.

Researchers hypothesize environmental contaminants to be responsible for a decline in canine sperm quality. Can the same be said for humans?

The new reports go against earlier ones that cited Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted beaches and bays.

Filipino authorities told Agence France-Presse they considered the threat to Miss Universe 2017 be "serious." 

A new study published in the journal Science showed that sunflowers use circadian rhythms in addition to heliotropism to move with the sun.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world’s largest detector for neutrinos — elusive subatomic particles that have almost no mass that rarely interact with matter.

Another 7,668 people were under investigation but were not currently detained, a minister told the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Experimental treatment by Australian biotech company Mesoblast showed significant improvement in patients suffering from the painful autoimmune disease.

Cold pills contain pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient of meth, a highly addictive drug whose ever-soaring popularity is rattling governments across Asia.

Two faculty members were abducted at gunpoint from a road near the university in Kabul Sunday evening.