If holiday travel seems like a nightmare today, it was surely a horror 100 years ago. An ‘isochronic’ map shows what it was like to travel in 1914, and the travel time is not measured in hours, but in days.

A closer look at the two pictures taken by the Duchess of Cambridge of six-month-old Princess Charlotte reveals an awful lot about their young subject.

GRAPHIC WARNING: The sickening video, from RPA hospital in Sydney’s inner-west, shows doctors pulling a dressing out of the horrific wound caused by a white-tailed spider bite.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he and President Barack Obama have a shared understanding on how to move toward a political settlement in Syria, but added that incidents like the recent downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet stymie broader cooperation against extremism.

By Roberta Rampton and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House announced changes to the U.S. visa waiver program on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travelers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel. Under the new measures, which were prompted by the […]

A nonprofit funded by the Coca-Cola Co. to combat obesity is disbanding following revelations about the beverage maker’s involvement with the group. The Global Energy Balance Network said on its website …

LONDON/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Manufacturing activity deteriorated across much of Asia in November and while European factories reports improved, the region struggled to gather momentum. Business surveys on Tuesday showed few signs of vigour across trade-reliant Asia, apart from Japan, with sluggish demand at home and abroad forcing manufacturers from China to Indonesia to throttle back […]

UnitedHealth Group Inc’s (UNH.N) chief executive officer on Tuesday defended the company’s possibly exiting the Obamacare health insurance exchanges in 2017, citing losses on health plans it said were designed to succeed. CEO Stephen Hemsley said that the health insurer had kept costs down by selling plans with small doctor networks, and that it had […]

An upcoming iPhone feature, which will let users send money to friends, is expected to be an unprofitable way to boost adoption of Apple Pay.

The object has been designated V774104, and it lies more than 100 times farther from the sun than Earth. It's fueling speculation about a Planet X. View larger. | Artist's concept of our sun as viewed from a very distant planet, via NASA / ESA / Adolf …