Renault Formula 1 team will be renamed Lotus Renault GP from next season under a partnership with the Malaysian company Proton, which owns Lotus Cars.

The gender pay gap has narrowed as women have seen bigger pay increases in 2010, official figures show.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says Middle East peace talks are in crisis following Israel's refusal to stop building in settlements.

Scientists have rediscovered in a cave in Kenya, collecting the first "terrible hairy fly" specimen since 1948, a statement said Wednesday.

A fire in a jail in the Chilean capital Santiago kills at least 81 inmates, the deadliest incident in the country's prison system.

US space agency has been NASA left red-faced after selling off computers without ensuring that highly sensitive data had been removed.

A private US capsule that could soon be hauling cargo and even astronauts to the space station has launched on its first demonstration flight.

Addicts should completely end drug use, not just reduce it, according to the government's new drugs strategy.