Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights activist, was among five women activists released Wednesday from a Tehran prison where she had been jailed since 2010.

An influential Communist Party journal on Monday decried online speech critical of the ruling Communist Party and government, comparing Internet rumors to denunciation posters during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

Kenya is canvassing support for a possible walk-out by African states from the International Criminal Court

Wind farms are a "disease" that have blighted Britain's countryside and the country should embrace nuclear power and fracking to meet its energy needs, London Mayor Boris Johnson says.

The old battlefields where Englishmen and Scotsmen once shed each other's blood are a reminder of historic enmities in the border region.

A Russian official referred last week to Great Britain as "a small island to which no-one pays any attention".

Using your fingerprint to identify yourself seems beguilingly simple: it belongs only to you, and you aren't going to lose it. Apple's use of fingerprint technology -- although not the first in the industry -- seems very in tune with its ethos of making devices easy to use.

A team of researchers who found that people think they are more attractive when drinking alcohol, have scooped an Ig Nobel prize for their work.

When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States without speaking English, and rose from limo driver to founder of a business-analytics company, Tidemark.

Samsung just launched their next, new, big time product. It's the Galaxy Gear smartwatch.