Tensions over the disputed South China Sea have been reignited after Beijing said its military had driven away a US warship that had entered its territorial waters without permission. Washington has insisted…
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA's first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10…
Surgeons have performed the world's first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors "never expected it to work at all", patient…
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis…
Five US service members have been killed on a routine training mission after the military aircraft carrying them suffered a "mishap" and crashed into the sea. The military personnel were taking part…
More than 4,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to escape a wildfire scorching land around 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The blaze was first reported just before 12.45pm…
The family of a man who carried out a mass shooting in Maine warned that he was hearing voices five months before he killed 18 people, officials have confirmed. Documents released on…
The US and China have endorsed a joint declaration on the need to manage the potentially "catastrophic" risks posed by Artificial Intelligence. The world's leading AI powers were among 28 nations to…
The second person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for…
A fisherman who went missing two weeks ago was found alive in a life raft off the Washington coast, the US Coast Guard said. A Good Samaritan vessel located the missing mariner…
