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The mistake that cost a village its children

Scientists have for the first time measured the energy levels of antimatter, perhaps leading to a better understanding of the Universe.

Three researchers are honoured with a Nobel prize in physics for their discovery that our Universe's expansion is accelerating.

A smartphone app that allows anyone to overlay the real world with images and video launches, but is it the future of "augmented reality" or forgettable fun?

We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it. If you enj...

Thousands of people are spreading a false rumour about a Washington pizza restaurant and a child sex ring. But why?

Vaclav Havel, the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution against communist rule, dies at the age of 75.

Pakistan's national airline is mocked after a goat was sacrificed before one of its flights.

How one man celebrated his 30-year Great Wall obsession by filming the entire network by drone.

Photographer Anton Skyba visited Chernobyl to document how the site is slowly being renewed after 30 years of desolation

Scientists shed light on Jewish heritage with an in-depth genetic study from communities across the world.

Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1BBill Maher and his guests – Sam Harris, Ben Affleck, Michael Steele and Nicholas Kristof - discuss ...

Physicists have drawn up construction plans for a large-scale quantum computer.

In 1903, 3,000 of the earliest teddy bears were sent by ship from Germany to America only for them to disappear. What happened?

Naima Houder-Mohammed believed Robert O Young, the father of the alkaline diet, could cure her. It didn't turn out as she hoped.

Donna Penner woke up in the operating room, just before the surgeon made his first incision. She describes how she survived the excruciating pain of being cut open while awake.

Researchers have devised a way of cracking quantum key distribution, using lasers to blind the directors.

They might cause a lot of pain, but they also seem to do us good.

An Indonesian woman appears to have been the latest victim of a gruesome but rare animal attack.

The bulging python was cut open after villagers grew suspicious it had eaten the man.

When police mistyped an IP address, Nigel was wrongly arrested on suspicion of being a paedophile.