Hawthorne: A company that has flown unmanned capsules to the Space Station unveiled a spacecraft designed to ferry up to seven astronauts to low-Earth orbit that SpaceX founder Elon Musk says will revolutionize access to space. The cone-headed craft ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expects to send astronauts into space in his resuable rockets within two years, promising to apply commercial airliner economics to intergalactic space travel. SpaceX, the first private rocket maker to deliver cargo to the ...

Ukrainian forces will continue their offensive against rebels until peace and order are restored in the east, the interim defence minister has said. Fighting has intensified around Sloviansk and 12 Ukrainian troops were killed on Thursday when pro-Russian ...

Why did Apple buy Beats? Is it the headphones? They do look stylish and could gel well with the iPhones and iPads Apple designs. Is it the company's close relationship to Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine? Yes, that too, because Iovine was instrumental in ...

FORTUNE -- Google Inc's (GOOG) chief executive Larry Page softened his tone in the company's dispute with Europe over privacy rights, saying the company needs to engage more with Europe and be more sensitive to its concerns. "We're trying now to be ...

With 288 cases reported to it as of May 23, the agency is urging people without them to be vaccinated as 2014's summer travel season nears. May 30, 2014. CDC reported May 29 that 288 measles cases were reported to it between Jan. 1 and May 23, 2014, ...

Russia appears to be pulling most of its forces from the Ukrainian border, US defence officials have confirmed, a day after 12 army forces were killed by rebels as the crisis in Ukraine intensified. The move follow weeks of demands from the US that the Russian ...

The search engine giant introduces a mechanism for people to request the censorship of links to other internet sites. 8:17am UK, Friday 30 May 2014. Google must censor some of its own search results. Tweet ...

Russia has pulled back most of its troops from the border with Ukraine, according to a U.S. defense official, a move that if completed would fulfill a pledge by Russian President Vladimir Putin. A “majority of the Russian forces” have been withdrawn from the ...

Elon Musk has a somewhat understated approach to his product reveals. There's no trace of the "amazing!" or "revolutionary!" gobbledygook that accompanies other tech presentations. That's because the, er, gravity of what Musk and SpaceX are doing mostly ...

Cowgirl with a ham: Charlize Theron costars with Seth MacFarlane in "A Million Ways to Die . . .." Universal Pictures. Cowgirl with a ham: Charlize Theron costars with Seth MacFarlane in "A Million Gallery: Jokes are first to die in MacFarlane's "West".

Kiev: Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who downed an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 12 troops in one of the deadliest attacks of the insurgency. Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko ...

Brad Pitt has filed a temporary emergency restraining order against his red carpet attacker Vitalii Sediuk, during the premier of 'Maleficent', according to reports. According to E! News, the protective orders were issued by police and good for five days and the ...

The Dragon V2 got its grand reveal Thursday night by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who showed off his company's new spacecraft in a live webcast. While the California-based company has already made its mark on the industry in its 12 years in business, the ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to Bay Area public schools. The couple's gift will be spread over the next five years and is the biggest allocation to date of the $1.1 billion in Facebook stock the couple ...

Mark Zuckerberg announced that he will be donating $100 million to San Francisco Bay area schools - his second education donation of this size. Zuckerberg, along with his wife Priscilla Chan, are providing the donation through their Startup:Education ...

Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who downed an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 12 troops in one of the deadliest attacks of the insurgency. The militants shot the Mi-8 helicopter gunship out of ...

There is outrage over police inaction in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where two teenage girls were gang raped and hanged from a tree. The father of one victim said he was ridiculed by policemen when he sought help in finding his missing ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic: A group of Christian youth destroyed one of the last mosques in Central African Republic's capital on Thursday, hours after Muslim rebels launched a grenade and gunfire attack on a Catholic church, officials and residents ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic: A group of Christian youth destroyed one of the last mosques in Central African Republic's capital on Thursday, hours after Muslim rebels launched a grenade and gunfire attack on a Catholic church, officials and residents ...