A powerful virus targeting smart phones in China running Google’s Android operating system may be the most sophisticated bug to target mobile devices to date, security researchers say. Anti-virus firm Lookout Mobile Security estimates that the number of phones that have been infected by the virus, dubbed Geinimi, ranges from the tens of thousands to [...]

South Korea has confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu for more than two years, the agriculture ministry said. Two poultry farms, one in central South Korea and the other in the south-west, were confirmed to have been contaminated by the H5N1 virus. It marked the first time since April 2008 that the country has [...]

On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, dozens of white plastic bags lay in carefully arranged rows. Each sack was knotted at the top and contained the remains of a fetus. Thai authorities found about 2,000 remains in the temple’s mortuary, where they had been hidden for a year — apparently to conceal illegal abortions. [...]

A Florida woman’s death was apparently caused when an electric neck massager became ensnared on her necklace and strangled her, sheriff’s investigators said. Medical doctor Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson, 37, had been wrapping gifts on Christmas Eve and used the massager to relieve neck pain, Broward County Sheriff’s investigators said. Her husband found her lying unconscious on [...]

The FCC passed new rules — written by corporations — that will end Net Neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person leading the charge was Obama appointee Julius Genachowski (known in some circles as [...]

In a scene akin to cartoon TV show “Futurama,” South Korean schools are testing 29 robots to teach English to children in the southeastern city of Daegu, AFP reports. The robot, called Engkey, started teaching in elementary schools on Monday. The machines were developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and are [...]

SKINNY jeans, adult films and human excrement are among some of the most wanted items for consumers in North Korea. Kim Young-soo, a professor at Seoul’s Sogang University who has interviewed several recent defectors from the Communist country, said that the items were selling “like hot cakes”. Other popular items sold in North Korea included [...]

This is the shocking video that shows an icy calm gunman holding members of a Florida school board hostage before shooting himself dead. The footage shows Clay Duke, 56, spray painting the letter ‘V’ in red paint on the wall inside the school before ordering everyone save six male Bay District school board members to [...]