If there was a prize for most important story of the year, it would likely go to crude oil. Financial market dynamics have been affected by oil prices more than people expected. Energy and materials ...

In 2014, Syria’s armed conflict grew increasingly bloody with government and pro-government militias intensifying their attacks on civilian areas and continuing use of indiscriminate weapons.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — On the week of October 3-4 in 2015, Columbia and most of the rest of the Midlands experienced a natural disaster unlike any seen in modern history, as a system brought historic ...

Angus MacKenzie and I got into a debate years ago about performance driving aids. I argued there is nothing wrong with using technology to go faster. MacKenzie argued they were Band-Aids for ...

The best smartphones in the world today? Try these 15 out for size. For more in-depth reviews, click the links and watch the videos littered throughout the article. Its Exynos 7420 chipset comfortably ...

Mass shootings in the United States drew an enormous amount of attention in 2015. In early December, the NewsHour plotted the locations of these shootings in a map, using data from the Mass Shooting ...

If you felt like it was harder than ever this year to keep up with Netflix Originals, you were not alone. The leading streaming service released 65 original programs during the calendar year 2015 ...

This year held a lot of surprises, from shocking incidents of terrorism and mass violence to Donald Trump's ascendancy in the polls. Below are 11 of the developments that most amazed and astounded ...

An Afghan woman and her son wear a thermal blanket shortly after landing on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Yannis Behrakis / Reuters) The stakes in the dispute are enormous: More than $5 trillion in ...

2015 was an incredible year for new music. While everyone from Grimes to Kendrick Lamar" class="company-link">Kendrick Lamar, from Beach House to Selena Gomez, to ...

Years from now, when we look back on 2015, what will we remember? Maybe it’ll be the tiny body of a drowned migrant boy, face-down on a beach in Turkey. Or the swagger of Donald Trump, carpet-bombing ...