The cabinet will discuss whether the government should ramp up preparations for a no-deal Brexit when it meets later this morning. It comes after Theresa May said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the third week in January. Labour...
The US space agency Nasa has landed a new robot on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red Planet. The InSight probe aims to study the world's deep interior, and make it the only planet - apart from Earth - t...
A new video has been released of the 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a Thai cave, in which they say they are in good health. Smiling and at times laughing, they each introduce themselves one by one. They were found on Monday after nine ...
On Toronto's Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs - a firm owned by Google's parent Alphabet. It hopes the project will become a model for 21st-Century urbanism. But the deal has been controversial, representing on...
Black man videotapes Starbucks' refusal to let him use restroom...
The coach of the England netball team has told Radio 1 Newsbeat how one of her star players reacted to winning gold at the Commonwealth Games. Tracey Neville's team won gold for the first time after a last-second goal by Helen Hous...
Bali has asked phone companies to turn off mobile internet to celebrate New Year, which falls locally on Saturday. Mobile internet will be shut down to mark Nyepi, a Hindu holiday on the Indonesian island. The island's airport will also shu...
Net neutrality rules put in place under the Obama administration are at risk of being overturned. The Federal Communications Commission will vote Thursday on whether to remove net neutrality rules instituted during the Obama admini...
European countries are boosting relief efforts in their Caribbean territories devastated by Hurricane Irma, amid criticism over the response. French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting French islands that took the full force of the st...
As malicious hackers mount ever more sophisticated attacks, China is about to launch a new, "unhackable" communications network - at least in the sense that any attack on it would be quickly detected. The technology it has turned t...
US scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made and put the number at 8.3 billion tonnes. It is an astonishing mass of material that has essentially been created only in the last 65 years or so. The 8.3 billion tonnes is...
South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of "comfort women" forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two. Filmed by US troops in China, the clip was found by government-funded rese...
North Korea releases video of July 4 missile launch...
Gwyneth Paltrow isn't as hard on herself as she used to be. In a new interview for Edit, Net-a-Porter’s weekly digital magazine, the 44-year-old Oscar winner and Goop founder revealed that she has learned to brush off critici...
Asian food lovers are fuming over a video they say "manhandles" traditional soup dumplings. The video published by Time Out London on Facebook shows diners attempting to burst their Xiao Long Bao (little basket buns), and throw out...
Uber CEO apologizes for newly released video...
Video shows Harrison Ford's near-collision with American Airlines plane...
An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets -- or planets outside our solar system -- that could have liquid water on their surfaces, according to apaper published todayin the journal...
Video appears to show assassination of North Korean leader's half-brother...
To celebrate her 44th birthday, Gwyneth Paltrow went au natural -- that is, make-up-free. The Oscar winner and Goop founder posted a make-up-free selfie on Tuesday, writing, "#nomakeup for my 44th birthday, embracing my past and future...