A total lunar eclipse, the first since December 2011, took place on Tuesday with the Americas best placed to get a glimpse. Here is your 10-point cheat-sheet to this story: Top 10 facts. Tuesday's eclipse was the last full lunar eclipse visible from the United ...

Cape Canaveral: A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts. NASA said on Friday night that a backup computer on the outside of the orbiting lab is not responding to commands. The main computer, called an ...

Security experts warn there is little Internet users can do to protect themselves from the recently uncovered "Heartbleed" bug that exposes data to hackers, at least not until vulnerable websites upgrade their software. Researchers have observed sophisticated ...

Pretoria: A South African prosecutor forced Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday to look at a forensic photograph of the head of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after it was destroyed by a gunshot fired by the Olympic and Paralympic track star. In a dramatic opening ...

Pretoria, South Africa: A tearful Oscar Pistorius apologised on Monday to Reeva Steenkamp's family, telling the court he had "terrible nightmares" since the night he killed his girlfriend and often woke up smelling blood. Stammering and with his jaw trembling ...

Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara played their last T20 international in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 against India, which Sri Lanka won to lift their maiden title. Press Trust of India | Last updated on Monday, 07 April 2014 08:33 Print font ...

Lagos: Nigeria's recalculated economy is worth $510 billion, by far the biggest in Africa, officials announced Sunday using long overdue revised data that gives the West African nation continental bragging rights but does little for the 70 percent of its citizens ...

Kabul, Afghanistan: The international community has widely praised Afghanistan for holding national elections that saw a heavy turnout despite complaints about a shortage of ballots and reports of fraud. Millions of Afghans defied Taliban threats and crowded ...

Perth, Australia: Australia on Sunday sent planes and ships to investigate signals detected by a Chinese ship in the hunt for a missing Malaysian jet, saying they matched black box beacons and were an "important and encouraging lead". (Planes, ships ...

Perth, Australia: Planes and ships were being diverted Sunday to the area where a Chinese vessel detected signals consistent with a black box beacon in the hunt for missing flight MH370, the search chief said. (Chinese ship detects underwater ping in ...

New Delhi: The BJP has reacted sharply to an article in The Economist that describes Narendra Modi as a divisive man and "recommends" to Indians a Rahul Gandhi-led government as an uninspiring but "less disturbing" option. The BJP's Mukhtar Abbas ...

Inside a moon of Saturn, beneath its icy veneer and above its rocky core, is a sea of water the size of Lake Superior, scientists announced Thursday. The findings, published in the journal Science, confirm what planetary scientists have suspected about the ...

An undated handout photo of Brendan Eich, who is stepping down from his role as Mozilla's chief executive a week after the appointment. (Mozilla via The New York Times). New York: In Silicon Valley, where personal quirks and even antisocial personalities ...

Cape Canaveral, Florida: Add Enceladus, a small moon orbiting the giant ringed planet Saturn, to the growing list of places beyond Earth that have oceans - and prospects for hosting life, a study released on Thursday shows. Situated some 850 million miles ...

Cape Canaveral, Florida: Add Enceladus, a small moon orbiting the giant ringed planet Saturn, to the growing list of places beyond Earth that have oceans - and prospects for hosting life, a study released on Thursday shows. Situated some 850 million miles ...

Microsoft's keynote address at the Build 2014 conference saw some major announcements from the company, such as Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1 Update, three new Nokia Lumia smartphones, and also, the new Internet Explorer 11. The Redmond ...

Jose Mourinho feels Chelsea did most things right but the few shortcomings - including inability to convert half-chances against PSG - led to their 1-3 defeat. Agence France-Presse | Last updated on Thursday, 03 April 2014 09:30 Print font size - +. Tweet.

Jose Mourinho feels Chelsea did most things right but the few shortcomings - including inability to convert half-chances against PSG - led to their 1-3 defeat. Agence France-Presse | Last updated on Thursday, 03 April 2014 09:30 Print font size - +. Tweet.

Microsoft Corp is to give away its Windows operating system to makers of smartphones and small tablets for consumers as it seeks to make more of an impact on those fast-growing markets and counter the massive success of Google Inc's free Android ...

Flooded tracks at Grand Central Terminal after Hurricane Sandy in New York, Oct. 30, 2012. (File photo). Yokohama, Japan: Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, ...