A few months ago I was filling out an online customer survey. Under "gender," in addition to "male" and "female," there was a third option: "other." I thought that was impressive. Then Facebook came along and added 50. Bravo, Facebook, bravo. This is huge ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population ...

image WASHINGTON: Moody's kept Italy's debt rating unchanged at a low Baa2 investment grade Friday but improved its outlook from negative to stable as the country moved to choose a new premier. The ratings agency cited the "resilience" of government ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Scientists have solved the mystery of the "jelly doughnut" rock on Mars that appeared to come out of nowhere. NASA said Friday that a wheel of the rover Opportunity broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view.

Google's home page got all kinds of interactive and love-ey for Valentine's Day 2014, with a Google doodle that includes animation and voice stories about love recorded by the public radio show “This American Life.” In the video above, TIME talked to the ...

On Thursday, Facebook announced it will offer more gender options for its users. How many? The gender binary has been replaced with more than 50 options. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories ...

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for "aggravated" homosexual acts, officials said today. President Museveni announced his decision to governing party lawmakers, said government ...

Lusaka (AFP) - Zambian ex-diplomat and son of former president Rupiah Banda was on Friday sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. Andrew Banda, 53, was arrested in 2012 on charges of soliciting a kickback from Italian ...

Facebook's message was clear when the social media network added new gender options for users on Thursday: the company is sensitive to a wide spectrum of gender identity and wants users to feel accommodated no matter where they see themselves on ...

Honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani has gone a significant step closer to being removed to South Africa to face allegations of organising the killing of his wife. The South African Government paved the way for imminent extradition by confirming it will ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda's president plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for “aggravated” homosexual acts, officials say. President Yoweri Museveni announced his decision to governing party lawmakers, government ...

Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic athlete who faces a murder trial next month, marked Valentine's Day with what he said were a few words from his heart. The double-amputee runner, who has lived in virtual seclusion while on bail, said he was consumed by ...

Oscar Pistorius marked the first anniversary of the death of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he is accused of shooting to death last Valentine's Day, with a message on his website. Pistorius, the South African double-amputee Olympic athlete, will go on trial for ...

The eurozone is slowly emerging from its sovereign debt crisis but the situation in Italy – the bloc's third-largest economy and one of its founding members – remains a source of deep concern. Although the Italian economy resumed growth in the three months ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Just weeks before South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius is due to face trial on charges of murdering his girlfriend, he posted a Valentine's Day message on his website, calling the shooting a “devastating accident.”.

Friday's interactive Google Doodle is special for two reasons: One, it uses real people's stories about love and relationships; and two, it represents a collaboration between Google and Ira Glass's This American Life. We spoke to Google Doodler Jennifer Hom ...

(Updates flood, rain warnings from eighth paragraph.) Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Princes William and Harry helped flood protection efforts on the River Thames west of London as a new storm hit the U.K. with drenching rains, threatening to prolong the risk of ...

At least three people were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes when a volcano erupted on Indonesia's most populous island, shutting down airports and showering the region with ash and grit. The eruption of Mt. Kelud in Java began late ...

Three international airports in Indonesia are shut down after a volcano erupted late Thursday night on the heavily populated island of Java. Ash spewed into the air can build up in the machinery of a plane, jamming the engines and causing them to fail, ...

(TRNS) – Facebook announced on Thursday that it will begin allowing users to identify their gender outside of the traditional “male” and “female” options on their profiles. In addition to the standard two options, the social network when I'll let users in the United ...