Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates on Sunday took center stage at the world's largest technology show for the last time and predicted that his industry was on the cusp of the next "digital decade."

A car owner in the South African capital Johannesburg was driven to desperation when she found a family of Cape Hyrax, small animals that resemble guinea pigs, living in the engine of her vehicle.

Albert Laughter, a fifth generation Navajo medicine man, sits on the ground inside a towering white tepee.A small fire of cedar logs burns in the centre of the floor, its aromatic smoke curling through the opening at the peak of the tepee, 20 feet over...

Residents of some parts of Victoria are still mopping up after a series of brief but intense rainstorms overnight.

America will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system

Let us set aside the clichés about green fashion, ye cynical Kermits, and presume that everyone is now on board with saving the world by doing our holiday shopping at Barneys, where even the window displays promote eco-friendly clothing.

As it unveils plans for thousands of wind farms to be built off the coast of Britain, the Government faces criticism that it is neglecting other forms of alternative energy. Jon Mainwaring reports

Merck, the global pharmaceutical research company, has agreed to resolve violations of federal and state water pollution control regulations arising from spills of pollutants at its pharmaceutical plant outside of Philadelphia. The spills entered a water

AP) Two hours after his flight landed in Phoenix, Calgary resident Doug Farley already was cruising the city's vast stuccoed suburbs in search of the one attraction Canadians cannot seem to get enough of these days: cheap homes.

PHILADELPHIA -- A small sign that asked customers to order in English at a famous cheesesteak shop was never meant to be offensive, the shop's owner testified Friday at a hearing to decide whether the policy was discriminatory.