DALLAS— A young girl’s repeated attempts to dial 911 went unanswered as her mother lay dying from stab wounds in a Texas hotel room. She didn’t...
NEW DELHI — The India-based outsourcing and information technology giant Infosys has appointed Nandan Nilekani, one of company’s co-founders, as its non-executive chairman. Nilekani’s return to...
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s mega-corruption scandal that has ensnared much of its political and economic elite has one sector of its struggling economy booming: the sale...
NASHVILLE — Dutch giant Royal Philips announced plan Thursday to build a health technology centre in Tennessee that officials expect will create more than 800 jobs...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan’s National Space Organization was launched into orbit from California on Thursday. The Formosat-5 satellite lifted...
DES MOINES, Iowa — A former lottery computer programmer who admitted to rigging computers to enable him to pick winning numbers and cheat four states out...
WASHINGTON — Safety systems to prevent cars from drifting into another lane or that warn drivers of vehicles in their blind spots are beginning to live...
WINNIPEG — The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is warning parents of the dangers of an app popular with teens called Sarahah. The app allows users...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Engineers at a lab in Florida have been working quietly for the last two and a half years on building one of the...
SYDNEY — Scientists from around the world have called for the United Nations (UN) to take action to stop the proliferation of “killer robots.” At the International...