Government and business websites around the world were taken down in a bid to protect organisations after a critical software update was issued over vulnerabilities in programming language.

Scientists have found clues that could help predict who will develop aggressive prostate cancer many years in advance.

Exceeding a key global climate target is now "imminent and unavoidable", United Nations (UN) scientists have warned.

Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the planet's two moons.

A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device at its offices was "mere days" away from fleeing to Saudi Arabia before his arrest, prosecutors allege.

An expedition to investigate if an anomaly seen on a satellite image of a remote island in the South Pacific was Amelia Earhart’s missing plane has ended without recovering the wreckage.

Neanderthals were not the unintelligent cave dwellers of popular imagination, but may have been capable of showing both violence and care, researchers who have discovered bones dating back 75,000 years have said.

Severe drought has been declared in parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and West Sussex, the government has said.

The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, according to archaeologists.