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Children in a remote village in the Dominican Republic have an extremely unusual condition.

The hunt for Osama Bin Laden spanned three decades and two continents before it ended in a shootout at a fortified compound in northern Pakistan, writes the BBC's David Gritten.

US Vice-President Joe Biden says he supported carrying out the operation that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, a change from previous accounts.

Over the years the placebos used in drug trials have been getting more effective, especially in the US. Why?

The Russian has been freed by the US, in a prisoner swap with basketball star Brittney Griner.

Photo: Nick Veasey Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were about to expire, which would allow cheaper generics to flood the market. The company hadn't introduced a truly new product in three years, and its stock price was plummeting. […]

Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on an NHS blacklist of banned treatments, the BBC learns.

Rodney Brooks argues robots may be taking over some of our jobs but they are still changing the world for the better.

Advanced explore of github.com. The main goal is to highlight the most interesting repositories and exclude others.

The Pentagon's premiere research agency has chosen a former astronaut to lead a foundation that is designed to take humanity to the stars.

The National Rifle Association plays a central role in the contentious issue of US gun control.

We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.

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Only a few months after 9/11, American troops located Osama Bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan - so how was he able to evade them?

BBC news examines life for the Bin Laden family in the secretive and secure compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The government of the Maldives temporarily bans the depositing of rubbish from its hotels onto an island used almost entirely as a garbage dump.

UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.

Jonathan Amos reflects on the significance of Thursday’s announcement – and the mind-boggling scale of the black hole merger itself.

What does the transgender movement mean for the traditional binary concept of male and female?

The hunt for aliens should allow for the fact that ETs may be thinking machines rather than like us, a leading researcher says.