A troop of mischievous monkeys at London Zoo have had to be re-trained after showing too much interest in mobile phones....

Macedonia usually only hits the headlines when ethnic tensions erupt. But this small land-locked nation now wants to project a more positive image as the world’s first “wireless country”. In four y...

Chemists have developed a powerful household water purification system that puts the cleansing power of an industrial water treatment plant into a container the size of a ketchup packet. The chemical...

This city's hoped-for bragging rights as home of America's tallest environmentally friendly building could go down the toilet. In a city where organized labor is a force to be reckoned with, the pl...

Newly released research by Sanford Bernstein analyst Emme Kozloff, found that by using “electronic wallets” companies like Wal-Mart could save big. By using customer’s fingerprints as a payment metho...

Engineers are planning a brazen design to ease congestion and reduce accidents here that discards something sacred among American motorists — driving on the right side of the road. Missouri Departm...

A cockerel in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has saved itself from the pot after crowing what its owner claimed was "Allah", the Arabic word for God. The two-year-old rooster was set to b...

It could be easier for those with a fear of spiders to have a bath following a study published this week. Researchers suggest arachnophobes, and people with other phobias, could be helped by a dose...

The Instant Cool Can (I.C. Can) cools using simple water evaporation, and will lower beverage temperature by a minimum of 30° F (16.7° C) in just three minutes. "The I.C. Can™ is the result of the so...

Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus....