A second night of mostly peaceful protests over the fatal police shooting in Southern California of an unarmed black man said to be mentally ill climaxed on Wednesday ...
The University of Oxford has become the first British university to top the Times Higher Education's global league table, knocking the California Institute of Technology into second place.
Apple Inc has been sued by owners of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones who say a design defect causes the phones' touchscreens to become unresponsive, making them unusable.
Authorities in southern California ordered the evacuation of 82,000 people on Tuesday, after a wildfire broke out in a mountain pass to rapidly engulf 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) of terrain.
A man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of arson, officials said, over a wildfire in Northern California that has destroyed more than 175 homes and businesses and forced hundreds of residents to flee.
A daredevil skydiver on Saturday became the first to jump from a height of 25,000 feet (7,620 metres) without a parachute, landing in a net in southern California, a spokesman said.
Thousands of firefighters battled on Monday to contain a blaze tearing through suburban Los Angeles, destroying homes and a popular filming location and threatening actress Tippi Hedren's animal sanctuary.
A massive California wildfire that has already killed two people and destroyed 100 structures was burning out of control on Friday evening as officials said ...
A fast-growing wildfire destroyed at least 50 homes near the riverside community of Lake Isabella in central California, as five other major blazes up and down the state posed a diminishing threat to populated areas.
Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a press event at which it is expected to unveil new iPhone and iPad models.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture unveiled a new passenger spacecraft on Friday, nearly 16 months after a fatal accident destroyed its sister ship during a test flight over California’s Mojave Desert.
Jason Dufner clinched his first title in more than two years with a nerve-jangling playoff victory over David Lingmerth at the CareerBuilder Challenge in La Quinta, California, on Sunday.
