International Olympic Committee evaluation commission members will spend the next week looking over Chicago as a possible host for the 2016 Olympics, but something they don't see could be a key...

LONDON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama presented Queen Elizabeth II with a personalised Apple iPod ahead of a reception for G20 leaders at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, a palace spokesman said....

LONDON (AFP) - Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is to provide the magic for Michelle Obama at a banquet for the partners of the Group of 20 summit leaders in London on Wednesday. While the...

European astronomers said on Wednesday that an anomalous energy signal detected by an orbiting satellite could be a telltale of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter. The researchers, in a...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's popularity among geeks has failed to save him from being voted off US television show "Dancing with the Stars." Wozniak's fourth strut in a contest that pairs...

A fondly-held belief about long-necked sauropods, the giant four-footed dinosaurs beloved of monster movies and children, is most probably untrue, a dino expert said on Wednesday. At the zenith of...

Couples hoping for a baby girl might be best advised to go and live in Africa, if a study published on Wednesday is correct. It points to big differences in the proportions of male to female...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer security top guns around the world watched warily as the dreaded Conficker worm squirmed deeper into infected machines with the arrival of an April 1st trigger date....

CANNES, Audrey Stuart - TV documentaries are fast forwarding into the digital future to tap new sources of revenue, offering interactive and "360" packages to audiences increasingly getting their...