Genetic enhancement has been a favourite theme for science fiction writers.

There may be no taboo greater in Germany than to republish Adolf Hitler manifesto's, "Mein Kampf."

Wang Shijie, 11, is a rising star among the nearly 3,000 students at Guangzhou Evergrande's huge soccer academy in south China.

Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature on its social network which allows users to stream live video.

Colombia says it has found a Spanish galleon sunk 300 years ago in the Caribbean with treasure estimated as high as $17 billion in gold, silver and gems.

TransCanada, the company behind the now-defunct Keystone XL, is proposing another pipeline that would ship Alberta tar sands oil to Canada’s Atlantic coast.

Japanese and American professors clash over a textbook's depiction of the Japanese government's involvement in a system of sexual slavery during World War II.

Private, for-profit universities are the only way to meet the huge demand for “good, not great” higher education in emerging economies, it has been argued.

At a time when most college campuses prohibit guns, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. thinks the opposite should be the case -- urging his school's students to be armed ...

Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants ...