By Mark Hosenball and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday defended its collection of a massive amount of telephone records from at least one carrier as part of U.S. counterterrorism efforts, re-igniting a debate o... [Full Article]
Demonstrations across Turkey were ignited by a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in to prevent the uprooting of trees at Istanbul's Taksim Square. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
A massive extinction between the Triassic and Jurassic eras paved the way for the rise of the crocodiles, new research suggests. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Domestic box-office projections for the debut weekend of "Oz the Great and Powerful" are going as high as $85 million, and Disney's prequel to the 1939 classic could do even better than that overseas. The st... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - China is defending its booming military spending, saying its vast investments in the armed forces have contributed to global peace and stability. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - Cyberattacks that stole massive amounts of information from military contractors, energy companies and other key industries in the U.S. and elsewhere have been traced to the doorstep of a Chinese military unit, a U.S. security firm all... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has evacuated families of its diplomats in Syria but is not planning to launch a large-scale evacuation of tens of thousands of its citizens from Syria, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - The world's supply of maple syrup just got a little safer. Police in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec announced a breakthrough in the mysterious disappearance last August of truckloads of Canadian maple syrup. Three s... [Full Article]
Users took to social networks on Monday to vent their displeasure with Google (GOOG) following a 40-minute disruption of service affecting the company's Chrome Web browser and Gmail service. It was previously unclear what caused the services to simul... [Full Article]