Scientist Veena Sahajwalla wants to create a swathe of miniature furnaces that will recover riches from your discarded cellphones.

The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as "Spring Holiday" and "Fall Holiday" to be more "inclusive".

Donald Trump supporters are lashing out at the president-elect for backing down from prosecuting Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server.

Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times.

US President-elect Donald Trump took a populist tone on the campaign trail, pledging to stand for a beleaguered working class abandoned by the elite.

Investigators have warned consumers they face potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers failed a basic safety test.

Many of the fake news websites that sprang up during the US election campaign have been traced to a small city in Macedonia ...

Singapore has the highest achieving students in international education rankings, with its teenagers coming top in tests in maths, reading and science.

Google has confirmed it will hit its target of offsetting 100% of the energy used at its data centres and offices against power from renewable sources.

The nomination of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to be the next head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has two important ramifications.