Using nothing more than a simple vial of saliva, millions of people have created DNA profiles on genealogy websites. But this wealth of information is effectively inaccessible to genetics researchers, with the sites painstakingly safeguarding their databa...

A Canadian and a Briton charged with vandalism for spray painting graffiti on a wall in northern Thailand face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, police said on Friday.

Gallai cyllideb y Canghellor ddiwedd y mis fod yn dyngedfennol i economi'r gogledd a chynllun twf werth £670m.

Video from 1959 shows the day a zookeeper took a lion to a village pub, scaring the customers.

A treating doctor to an aged care patient who was found dead with a blanket over her head tears up giving evidence over the moment the deceased's daughter's allegedly asked for her mother to be euthanased.

Grace Meng speaks out about ‘cruel, dirty’ Chinese authorities after disappearance of France-based Meng HongweiThe wife of Meng Hongwei, incumbent president of Interpol who has been detained in secret by China, says she is not sure her husband is alive af...

Coalition of green groups has been working hard to ensure voters realise they have a chance to give Liberals a wake-up callYoung people in colourful T-shirts bearing slogans of Stop Adani, and members of Renew and other green groups, have been fannin...

Japan's Nikkei ended the week on a sour note on Friday, booking its third straight week of decline after tracking broader overnight losses on Wall Street and Europe.

NPR has learned that the Justice Department issued subpoenas to at least six of the state's eight dioceses seeking private files and records.

The 18-year-old student who carried out a mass shooting in Crimea has been captured on CCTV buying up to 150 shotgun shells four days earlier, according to Russian media.

With some of the biggest jobs in football potentially becoming available Pochettino may soon have to make the decision which will define his career

Sweeping regeneration is bringing 20,000 homes to 560 acres of former office buildings in this overlooked central London area.