Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses.

Plenty of Chinese lawyers have been harassed, detained, even jailed in China but the photograph of one with his clothes reportedly torn off him by police has drawn plenty of attention in China.

Archaeologists used satellite images, drone photography and ground surveys to locate the find,

A court in Qatar has convicted a Dutch woman of having sex outside marriage after she told police she was raped.

Urgent action is needed to deal with the UK's digital skills crisis, warn MPs, or it risks damaging the country's productivity and competitiveness.

Imagine looking at the Earth from space. What is at the top of the planet? If you said the North Pole, you probably wouldn’t be alone. Strictly speaking, you wouldn’t be right either.

The new comprehensive World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness has just appeared in Science Advances.

A simple pronoun has been voted Word of the Year and sparked outrage among some politicians.

This parrot is so endangered it should not even exist in the wild

Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate courses online within five years, says the founder of a leading US online university network.