(AP) -- YouTube has removed from its site videos featuring calls to holy war by an al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric after pressure from British and U.S. officials.

AP - The caves, rock houses and fantastical stone formations in Turkey's Cappadocia draw tourists from around the world. Nestled among the natural wonders, however, lies a village where the earth is believed to deliver death rather than...

Using the internet or a phone to arrange a sexual encounter with a child would be a criminal offence with a mandatory sentence under new legislation introduced Thursday.

Paul II was introduced to the public in a ceremony that aired live on television.

New brain research offers more insight into why people conform: the feeling of fitting in activates brain regions that spur pleasure.

AP - Lions attacked and killed a tourist while he was showering at an unfenced campsite in a nature reserve, and such fatal encounters are on the rise because of poaching, a conservationist said Thursday.

NBC's "Nightly News" on Tuesday flashed a clip of Barack Obama speaking on the night he was elected president two years ago, with anchor Brian Williams remarking on how much younger Obama looked. Plenty had changed in two years, and news organizations harnessed firepower on the air and online to record a long, tough political night for the Democratic president. Republicans were making strong...

Visitors to a Stockholm hotel will be able to use mobile phones instead of keys to unlock the doors to their rooms. Assa Abloy AB, the world's largest maker of door locks, has launched a pilot in which Clarion Hotel Stockholm will lend customers mobile phones with close-range radio chips, much like devices used for contact-less payments at gas stations. Repeat visitors during a four-month...

Attempts by broadcasters to seek payment for allowing their online video to be viewed through Google Inc.'s new Web-connected TV platform represents a "misunderstanding" of what it is, a Google executive said Tuesday. Broadcasters ABC, NBC and CBS have blocked full episodes of their shows from being accessed through Google TV's Web browser since the product became available last month....

Turkey's telecommunications authority will again block access to YouTube unless the video-sharing site removes a sex video of a former opposition party leader, the state-run news agency reported Tuesday. The threat of a new ban comes just three days after Turkey had ended a more than two-year ban on YouTube. The Anatolia news agency said a court, considering a complaint by lawyers...

The lifting of the Obama administration's deepwater drilling moratorium last month makes a judge's ban moot.

SPACE.com - After a cosmic chase lasting months and covering millions of miles, a comet-hunting spacecraft finally caught its icy quarry this morning (Nov. 4).

The system uses computers but doesn't depend on them.

AFP - Europe took steps Thursday to ban phosphates from laundry detergents in little over a year in a bid to clean up its rivers, lakes and marine...

LiveScience.com - It was the greatest example of migration by a mammal on Earth - a journey made by a humpback whale across nearly a quarter of the planet. Luckily, with the help of the Internet, scientists managed to capture it on camera.

The beneficial effects of six months of testosterone treatment on muscle mass, strength and quality of life in frail elderly men are not maintained at six months post-treatment, according to a study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

(PhysOrg.com) -- A software developer has created a "chatbot" program for Twitter to automatically detect set phrases associated with arguments put forward by those skeptical of anthropogenic global warming, and to send automated replies of set phrases debunking their arguments.

European computer guards joined forces Thursday to counter a simulated attack by hackers on critical Internet services, in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences.

Researchers may have identified a promising novel diagnostic biomarker for ectopic pregnancy, according to a study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). In the western world, deaths from ectopic pregnancy are not common but in the developing world one in ten women who are admitted with an ectopic pregnancy die.

(AP) -- Storms prevented Discovery from blasting off on its final journey Thursday, the latest in a series of postponements for NASA's oldest and most traveled space shuttle.

Mice prefer low-calorie food if they have to put more effort into getting it.

Decades-long CO2 experiment gives global warming clue