At her college, when she started teaching not that long ago, there were 122 English majors, said a professor in the audience at a panel here at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.

Saudi Arabia's royal family is frightened — and that's a problem for the U.S.-Saudi relationship.

Photo taken on Jan 9, 2016 shows a high-speed train in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province.

Black holes have long been known for "destroying" matter, with scientists usually referring to them as "eating" gas and stars.

French luxury goods firm Louis Vuitton is seeking damages from three people convicted of offering counterfeit versions of its clothing, shoes and handbags on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's popular Taobao shopping website ...

London has been cozying up to Beijing in recent years in the hope of attracting Chinese investment, but in one leafy corner of England the love-in has turned to acrimony.

Paris, on edge after weathering a year of jihadist violence, faced a fresh scare Thursday as police shot dead a knife-wielding man on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

The Netherlands has said it will not force tech firms to share encrypted communications such as emails with its security agencies.

50 kilometers north of Las Vegas, in the middle of the desert, the future of high speed transportation is starting to take shape.

Rochester Institute of Technology will be elevated to the "doctoral university" category by the educational organization that makes these designations.