February - 2016

Saudi Arabia sentences a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism on Tw

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of social media...

Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon two months before Neil Armstrong's famous 1969 landing heard mysterious and unexplainable 'music'...

A Swedish police officer failed to arrest a driver suspected of smuggling hundreds of litres of booze across the border – because it was...

Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When...

To the Western world, it's a surprising thing to see. One Starbucks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has a sign with the phrase, "Please no...

Antonio Docampo García, who died last week in Vigo, northwestern Spain, never drank water and put his long-life down to only imbibing his...

The brain becomes tolerant to sugar – which means more is needed to attain the same 'high'. In ways that nicotine and heroin hijack the...

The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands set up of the first sculptures in what will be the first completely underwater museum in...

France has decided to crack down on food wastage by becoming the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold...

Accor's Ibis brand is encouraging guests to choose what they pay for their stay at the newly-opened Ibis Chennai City Centre. The “Pay...