Throughout the world, people and world leaders pay homage to the victims of Friday's barbaric attack carried out by Islamic state group militants. The Metropolitan opera played the French anthem La Marseillaise, to commemorate the victims.

Vice President of Real Estate Dave Radcliffe and architects Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels discuss our proposed Master Plan for our new campus in Mountain View, California. With our proposal, our focus is on creating space for people, nature and ideas to thrive.

What is billed as France's biggest and best festival of lights begins in earnest tonight. "La fete des lumieres" takes place each year in the south-eastern city of Lyon and this edition, the 13th, promises to be bigger than ever.To honour the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is the s...

The 2(x)ist fashion show and cocktail party event is in partnership with ZERO, the project to end prostate cancer. Josh Rhodes, director choreographer , Countess LuAnn de Lesseps (The Real Housewives of New York City), Broadway Dancers, Roshumba Williams (5x Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model, TV Hos...

A huge crowd breaks out into applause after a minute’s silence to honour the victims of the Barcelona terror attack

Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War with heavy intervention by the United States on ...

In December 2022, California scientists achieved a major breakthrough -- a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was used to create it. Scientists have done it again and this time their results produced even more energy. Professor Peter Hosemann, chair of nuclear and mechanical eng...

Kevin Alloca discusses the four main resons why videos go viral.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate ch...

Rescue teams dealing with the aftermath of storms, hurricanes, tornados and tsunamis have few vehicles and limited equipment capable of reaching affected areas that are underwater. The fully amphibious Aton Impulse VIKING-2992 is a unique breed of new vehicle able to traverse land, water and the dif...

The blueprint even extends to Mudurnu in north-western Turkey - although the strange cluster of Gothic "castles" found on the outskirts of this unheralded town, 180 miles south-east of Istanbul, has far more in common with Walt Disney's whimsical vision than the masterpieces of European construction...