Flying car now closer to reality

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 19:16

The dream of owning a flying car has moved a step closer to reality - thanks to an ambitious engineering company based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Early land animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years

Last Updated: Sunday, May 5, 2013, 14:30

Scientists have long thought that early land vertebrates developed legs for moving around on land well before their feeding systems and dietary habits changed enough to let them eat a land-based diet.

First land animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 16:00

Land animals developed legs millions of years before their feeding systems changed enough to let them eat a strictly land-based diet, US paleontologists say.

FBI ends landfill search near Boston bombing suspect`s university

Last Updated: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 23:53

FBI has concluded its search of a landfill near a Massachusetts college where the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was a student.

Boston bombings suspect moved to prison from hospital

Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2013, 18:06

The lone surviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was injured in a deadly shootout with police here last week, was transferred from hospital to prison medical centre in Massachusetts.

`Knock-off jihadis` can`t break American spirit: Joe Biden

Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 11:10

US Vice President Joe Biden has described the two Boston Marathon bombers as twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadis.

Boston Marathon bombing suspects `had no gun licences`

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 12:49

Massachusetts police said they had not issued a gun license to 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died after the firefight.

Boston blasts: Massachusetts to observe moment of silence

Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013, 11:28

Massachusetts Governor and Boston Mayor called people to join together in a "Moment of Silence" Monday as a mark of respect.

Kids find decomposed foot believed to be Bigfoot`s

Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 22:04

Two young boys from Quincy, Massachusetts have left police and residents baffled with their mysterious and potentially grisly finding.

Boston bombing suspect interacted with US professor over ‘Chechen’ origin research

Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 11:36

A Massachusetts professor has said that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who is the subject of a massive manhunt, had requested for his help two years ago for research over rediscovering his Chechen origins.

Boston bombings suspect captured, brother killed

Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 08:41

A Chechen-origin teenager suspected to be behind the deadly Boston bombings was on Saturday captured by the police here after a 24-hour drama that saw another suspect being killed and the city virtually shut.