The gardening began by growing flowers in biscuit tins but, by the end of the war, the camp’s horticultural society was growing more than 50 types of sweet peas at the Ruhleben interment camp.

New regulations mean we could all soon be using our mobile phones on planes. Chris Leadbeater can think of ten reasons why this is a terrible idea (and three for why it might just be a good thing).

Mark McKenna, of Salford, Greater Manchester, says he is ‘shocked’ after claims that his grandfather Patrick McKenna was the mole working with the Great Train Robbers.

State police searching for a man accused of killing a state trooper said Tuesday they found two pipe bombs in the Pennsylvania woods during their manhunt.

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone, images released by NASA this week show.

Exclusive: New standards in Iraq, Syria follow reports of Idlib missile strike casualties.

CDC director: “I have no doubt we’ll stop this disease dead in its tracks in the U.S."

Four members of an alleged computer hacking ring were charged with stealing more than $100 million worth of software and data – used to train military pilots and related to Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) Xbox gaming console – the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. Prosecutors said the ring hacked into the computer networks of Microsoft and […]

Eric Cantor sat in his Washington office in June after one of the biggest upsets in congressional history, getting encouragement from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon, head of the largest U.S. Dimon talked about being fired from another bank by his mentor before rebounding to an even better seat, according to two people who […]

We just love watching the world end — with a bang, if possible, instead of a whimper. Natural disasters, nuclear bombs, super viruses, global warming, the Rapture, heck, even rogue planets — you name it, Hollywood has destroyed Earth with it at some …