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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.

There's a link between a gluten-free diet and diabetes.

A group of vigilantes has stepped in to restore forgotten historical sites in Naples’ Vergini neighbourhood.

Businesses are using augmented reality to engage customers and offer them a window onto a virtual world.

Spacecraft could one day navigate through the cosmos using a particular type of dead star as a kind of GPS, German scientists believe.

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.

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.

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.

Images shortlisted for the People's Choice Award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.