Businesses are missing out on the huge potential that social networks present, a leading information technology company has warned.

The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says.

Former prime minister Tony Blair has promised to "spend the rest of my life" uniting the world's religions

Game design and social networks are merging into one of the most persuasive forces on the net.

Explore the facts and figures behind the rising price of food across the globe.

Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.

The first 30,000 pages have been unveiled of a vast encyclopedia which aims to catalogue every one of our planet's 1.8 million species.

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell has had close encounters with vampire bats and angry bees, but his latest brush has been with a rather odd dog.

The Finnish village of Jokela, where an 18-year-old gunman killed eight people and himself at a high school on Wednesday, was quiet as night fell, with friends and family of the dead and injured in deep shock.