Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses.

There are 7 billion people in the world. And a full 22% of them -- 1.6 billion -- are fasting from sunup to sundown. Every day. For an entire month.

Education Department will push to finalize rule on state approval of online programs before the end of the year.

A steel structure in the Amazon, taller than the Eiffel Tower, will soon begin monitoring the atmosphere above the world’s largest tropical forest,

Literary criticism has been taken to a new level by Holger Syme.

The vast majority of incoming high school seniors who could qualify for a state-funded scholarship are running the risk of losing out on the assistance that covers up to four years of college tuition

Two people were injured in a reported shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, according to campus police.

Since golfers first bunted leather balls around Scottish links, they have searched for equipment to make them better -- and longer.

In the classic movie "Dirty Dancing," the final scene starts with the line "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"

Average salaries paid to senior university staff are rising three times as fast as the pay awarded to rank-and-file academics, new figures show.