On a soggy Sunday in May, some 6,000 residents of the Swiss canton of Glarus gathered in a public square to have their say on whether to raise the local transport budget,

As the world’s population becomes more urbanized, city governments are looking to businesses and hackers to help them harness data and technology to fix social and environmental problems.

Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country's top general for

Vietnamese authorities have detained three soldiers suspected of torturing and killing two rare monkeys, state-run Voice of Vietnam newspaper reports.

In 2009, when the Authors Guild tried to settle its epic legal battle with Google over the company’s massive Google Book Search project, the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Libraries both fought the settlement.

For generations, most college-bound Americans paid reasonable fees to attend publicly financed state universities.But the bedrock of that system is fracturing as cash-strapped states

The tweets came in soon after a gunman opened fire in a crowded Colorado movie theater. I'm safe. I survived. I made it out.

Can a veteran of sustainable business coalitions help rethink our economic system?

Trillions in Gold Beneath Ocean Spurs Modern Gold Rush -Miners have almost exhausted all land-based gold riches. It has become much harder to find, extract, and process and the likelihood of stumbling upon a nugget on the ground is practically zilch.

Online education platform Coursera wants to drag elite education into the 21st century. And yesterday, the academy jumped on board.