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The Russian president is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes during his Ukraine invasion.

From Marvel's Thor to Game of Thrones and Neil Gaiman, Norse legends have influenced culture and current ideas, according to a new book.

A local nuclear plant is recovering 400,000 gallons of contaminated water that spilled in November.

The clocks are changing and the days are getting longer. Research suggests we might want to consider what this means for our bedtime.

The world is reliant on international shipping and emissions from the sector are growing. Will sustainable seafaring mean a return to sail-powered ships?

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

UN inspectors are trying to locate around two and a half tonnes of uranium ore.

US footage shows the jet apparently dumping fuel as it makes two close passes with the drone.

Extreme travellers want to go everywhere - but one group just moved the goalposts...

Artificial intelligence will radically change our lives, for better and worse. Experts are worried.

A BBC reporter goes undercover and confronts doctors offering bogus treatments for his genetic condition.

Of Australia's great road trips, the Tanami Track might be the most intimidating. But the rugged nature that defines this epic desert journey could soon change.

It’s harder than ever to step away from our devices, which are so entwined in our lives. Is it fruitless to even try?

We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.

Deputies in Ohio arrived to a family home and encountered a large male zebra acting aggressively.

The Ireland women's rugby team changes their traditional white shorts to navy for the Six Nations because of concerns over playing during their periods.

The US says the two aircraft collided over the Black Sea, but Russia says there was no contact.

A surprising number of people experience symptoms of this curious condition, which is named after Lewis Carroll's heroine, who changed size after eating and drinking.

Nobody uses the Nilgiri Mountain Railway to get from A to B, but for the sheer joy of riding in a train that passes through 16 tunnels, 250 bridges and 208 serpentine curves.

President Biden approves an $8bn oil drilling project, in a move that has angered climate activists.

Streaming may be king, but fans of physical albums are weighing in with record sales growth

Scientists say the pace with which infrastructure is being built threatens the Himalayan ecosystem.

Twenty years after the Iraq war, controversy still rages over whether "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) ever existed.

The scientist emigrated to Texas after the riot and continues to call for political violence in the US.

A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.