The US Department of Defense invites vetted hackers to test its cybersecurity under a pilot program that is the first of its kind in the federal government.

One little dog who encounters a robodog that's a lot bigger. The robot canine is Spot. It was created by Boston Dynamics, a company owned by Google, reports CNET.

Big changes are underway in the United States, as the country gears up to elect a new president, one-third of the Senate, and the entire House of Representatives this November. The outcome will have profound consequences for US economic policy, and thus for the global economy.

Organised poaching of tiger and deer has emerged as a new phenomenon for the Sundarbans wildlife extinction, activists said yesterday, asking the government to take immediate steps to protect the Bengal cat, their habitat and food sources, reports BSS.

Catholic Church abuse movie "Spotlight" is named best picture, the top award at Oscar ceremony, after an evening peppered with pointed punchlines from host Chris Rock about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated the industry.

Leonardo DiCaprio wins his long-awaited first Oscar for revenge epic "The Revenant" but journalism drama "Spotlight" took best picture in a surprising end to Hollywood's glittering awards season.

Mexico's former President Vicente Fox has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

With its imposing splendour and sumptuous glamour, few people come away unimpressed from White House — a fitting home for a man who is master of all he surveys.

President Barack Obama yesterday presented a long-awaited roadmap to close the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying it was time to shutter a facility that betrayed US interests and values.

A man working as an Uber driver admits to the fatal weekend shootings of six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a police detective testifies in a case raising questions about how the car service vets its drivers.

Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.

A man arrested on suspicion of shooting dead six people in the northern US state of Michigan is an Uber driver who may have picked up fares during the killing spree.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Saturday he was suspending his campaign after a disappointing finish in the South

Jeb Bush drops out of the US Republican presidential race after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary.

Six people are shot and killed and several others wounded in Michigan, US in a series of apparently random shootings, authorities say.

A former Black Panther activist who spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement was freed from a US prison Friday after decades of

The contest for Republican and Democratic contenders to become presidential candidates in the United States has entered its third

US and Brazilian researchers are heading to João Pessoa in the state of Paraíba on Monday to recruit mothers and babies in one of the biggest government-led studies to understand whether the Zika virus is linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect.

Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most enduring literary classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, and surprised readers 55 years later with the publication of a second book about the same characters, dies at the age of 89 on Friday.

The United States is hoping to see a "breakthrough" in the ongoing investigation into the murder case of Bangladeshi-