On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles travelling through space.

China’s Buddhist regulator has promised to impose stricter discipline and supervision on the religion in the wake of the scandal surrounding the disgraced abbot of the Shaolin Temple.

"It has been repeatedly brought to the notice of higher authorities that issues of liberty of an individual must not be taken in such casual manner," justice Kathpalia said.

Apple's upcoming phone could be slighter bigger and more powerful -- and potentially pricer.

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have increasingly cracked down on women’s rights and neglected ...