Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank gave their updated projections on the global economy ahead of this week's G8 Summit in North Ireland.

In the wake of the recent calamity in Bangladesh, approximately 1.1 million people signed on to a campaign run by the advocacy group Avaaz pressuring retailers to invest in worker safety.

The shape of a room can be modelled using echoes produced from sound, new research has found.

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity , race or class?

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s claim that New York University has been pressured by Chinese officials to force him out of the institution ...

The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms ...

President Barack Obama set a goal early in his first term for the U.S. to turn out more college graduates than any other nation, but there hasn’t been much progress as most states have stumbled in their attempts to improve.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will make the call at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland for international action to curb the activities of tax havens ...

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

The billion-euro Herschel space telescope has been switched off.