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Now that evidence has emerged concerning the knowledge that authorities had about the jihadi connection of the perpetrators, it appears that there were dots on the radar screen but the intelligence services failed to join them in a pattern and thus overlooked the conspiratorial...

Scientists have been able to gain insight into the 570 million-year evolution of gills into the pharynx after doing genome sequencing of two species of acorn worms. “Acorn worms look very different from chordates, which makes it especially surprising that they and...

Miley Cyrus is going there on her new tour! Keeping things somewhat simple, for her final outfit Miley dressed up as the Sunday… what a lovely finish to an er… interesting show.

NASA’s Scott Kelly and Roscosmos’ Mikhail Kornienko are onboard the Space Station as part of the experiment that is a precursor to sending people to Mars. UFO enthusiasts quickly jumped on the image, as well as Kelly’s good night wishes, as proof of alien life.

Europe’s open borders were already under strain from the refugee crisis.

More than one million Mexicans and their families, including their US-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009 to 2014 after living in the US. In contrast, just 870,000 Mexicans came to live in the USA, resulting in a net loss of about 140,000 Mexican immigrants.

Known as a chiton, or a marine pill bug, A. granulate has eyes made up of a mineral commonly found in mollusks called aragonite rather than protein, like a human’s eyes.

The team, headed by Dr Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha of the Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo, named the new species Iandumoema smeagol after the ‘Lord of the Rings’ character Smeagol. The researchers called on the population and the biology of landumoema...

As Kotaku reported yesterday, there’s a new Valkyria game. Today, the publisher released a teaser video of the game, which is being described as a “death-opposing RPG”.

Nearly three dozen Republican members of Congress, including the leadership and membership of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and Communications Subcommittee and Small Business Committee, have called on FCC Chairman Tom wheeler to make the small business exemption from...

The bill, a compromise between a previous Senate and House version, had recently passed the Senate and yesterday passed the House.

In a blow to Alaska’s salmon industry, the Food and Drug Administration announced this morning it has approved genetically modified salmon, finding it is as safe to eat as natural salmon.

The German automaker will cut investments by one billion euros ($1.1 billion), or about 8%, to 12 billion euros. It said earlier this month it had also overstated fuel efficiency in a few vehicles. “I am personally hopeful we will be able to announce something soon about...

Elsewhere, Microsoft has started an Office Insider test programme based on the one it runs for Windows releases, while Windows Mobile sales continue to slump ahead of the release of the mobile version of Windows 10.

Arsene Wenger wants blood tests introduced in football to stop the possibility of drug cheats.