For more than a year, BitTorrent search engine isoHunt has chased the Canadian music industry in court. In an act of self-defense, the founder of the site has sued the Canadian branch of the RIAA, asking the court to legalize its operations.

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reports.

This week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the the funding of homeopathy on the NHS and the evidence behind the decision of the MHRA, which regulates medicines, to allow homeopathy sugar pill labels to make medical claims without evidence of efficacy …

A dust haze across Sydney should completely clear on Sunday afternoon but the Hunter Valley is expected to be blanketed until evening.

For Oregon journalist Paul Linnman, covering a story about blowing up a giant sperm whale with a ton of dynamite was just another day on the beat.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has signed into law the compulsory chemical castration of some sex offenders.

A Swedish man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared, after police decided she was probably killed by an elk.

A bomb blast caused the derailment of a Russian express train, killing at least 26 people, intelligence officials say.

The Netherlands-based file-sharing website Mininova has removed all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material.

It has been revealed that Australian Greens leader Bob Brown and millionaire businessman Dick Smith were involved in the ransom deal to help free Australian journalist Nigel Brennan and his Canadian colleague Amanda Lindhout in Somalia.

A cane toad hiding in a pair of hiking boots made its way from Queensland and past quarantine inspectors into New Zealand.

The UK bookshop chain Borders was placed in administration today, raising doubts over 1,150 jobs. The firm, which has 45 branded Borders and Books Etc stores across the UK, has come under severe pressure from internet competition during the past year.

The Commonwealth is tainted. More than a few of the leaders who will dine with the Queen this weekend at the Commonwealth nations summit in Trinidad and Tobago have blood on their hands. They abuse the human rights of their own citizens.

Police officers are still refusing to take complaints of rape seriously if the victims come from "the wrong part of town", if they have been drinking or if they have made previous allegations, according to a report by Sara Payne, the national victims' champion.

A soldier has apologised after crashing an eight-tonne tank into a garden fence during a driving lesson.

The mental and emotional storm that struck America on 11 September 2001 with the attacks on New York and Washington has been recreated with the release of more than half a million pager messages sent on that day.

An implant placed under the skin can instruct the immune system to attack and kill cancer cells, at least in mice, say researchers.

Researchers have demonstrated a prototype device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA.

A major diamond firm has issued a trade ban on all diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields because of "severe and continued human rights violations".

Sensations on the skin play a part in how people hear speech, say Canadian researchers.

Ignoring internet "trolls" is the best way to deter people who surf the internet picking fights and abusing people on discussion forums, says an expert.

The Liberal Party is falling apart tonight as conservative frontbenchers resign, leaving Malcolm Turnbull's leadership untenable.

20-year-old Craig Hoyle, who was brought up in the Exclusive Brethren Church, risked losing everything when he told his priests and family he was gay.

SEVEN Media Group has unveiled its on-demand television content strategy as competitors scramble to deliver new video services to Australians' TV screens over the internet.