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Getting ready for a holiday means people are often shattered by the time they leave home, says psychologist.

Wildlife photographer Chase Dekker took the photos while whale watching in California.

Robert Louis Desmarais is the sole inhabitant of Cerro Gordo, where he's been searching for silver.

Cambridge University student Alana Cutland fell to her death in July.

New research shows our galaxy, the Milky Way, is twisted and warped - not flat as previously thought.

Donald Trump wants humans back on the Moon by 2024, as part of a new spacefaring age. But what will it take to get there?

The 5.1 magnitude earthquake knocked out telecoms and power in parts of the city.

The WHO has redefined burnout as a syndrome linked to chronic work stress. There’s a difference between a busy workload and something more serious, writes Zaria Gorvett.

Despite its ubiquity, the origins of the dollar sign remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins, the Pillars of Hercules and harried merchants.

More people who have health problems – either physical or mental – are still showing up for work anyway.

Known as the ‘Città della Pasta’ (City of Pasta), the sleepy coastal town of Gragnano in Italy's Campania region became famous in the late 1700s for its ‘white gold’, or macaroni.

The Tibetan spiritual leader apologises for saying a future female successor should be "attractive".

The rare feature exists inside the crater of the Mount Michael stratovolcano in the South Atlantic.

Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists.

Archaeologists dive down to underwater tombs to access them for the first time in 100 years.

The victim was reportedly killed while hiking towards the volcano's summit.

A sizzling symbol of Americana eaten at stadiums and barbecues, the humble hot dog originated in a very unlikely place: the beach.

Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app. Throughout the world – so also in Belgium and the Netherlands – people at Google listen to these audio files to improve Google’s search engine. VRT NWS was able to listen to more than a thousand recordings. Most of these recordings were made consciously, but Google also listens to conversations that should never have been recorded, some of which contain sensitive information.

Tiffani Adams says she has experienced "re-occurring night terrors" since the incident.

Furore brings shutdown of app that used artificial intelligence to make convincing nudes of clothed women.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed by US troops on Sunday after resisting capture, the White House says.

Thirty US troops, said to be mostly special forces, are killed, reportedly when a Taliban rocket downed their helicopter - the largest single US loss of life in the Afghan conflict.

The tomb of the builders of Stonehenge could have been unearthed at the site where the original bluestones were quarried in 2300BC.

Scientists produce what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica.