Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential, The New York Times reported late Sunday. "The more people have access to ...

Children don't trust other kids when it comes to learning a new game and will turn to adults to learn them instead, says a new study. Hannes Rakoczy from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a US study that focused on one product, the Baby Wordsworth from the Walt Disney Company's Baby Einstein ...

The University of Cambridge is opening the doors of its historic buildings for tourists who want to stay the night, the prestigious British institution said. Visitors can stay in the colleges overnight while the ...

Chileans will be feeling aftershocks from the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake for months and possibly years to come, scientists said on Friday, as three strong tremors rocked the country. "The larger the earthquake, the larger the ...

An Indian group that performs 300,000 free or subsidized eye surgeries a year for the poor will receive the world's largest humanitarian prize, jurors said on Friday. Aravind Eye Care System, the world's largest eye ...

Rare rainfall in the United Arab Emirates caused traffic jams, car accidents, flooding and school closures as parts of the Gulf desert state received record precipitation. According to UAE's National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology ...

Fish oil fed intravenously to patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), improves gas exchange, reduces inflammatory chemicals and cuts down hospital stay. A randomised controlled trial, which examined the effects of including fish oil ...

Two well-dressed baby boys, wrapped in blankets and placed in cardboard boxes, were found at the entrance of a mosque in Sharjah before dawn on Tuesday. Police said the infants — one apparently aged five ...

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake ...