BERLIN, May 7 (UPI) -- A German court ruled Apple must change its rules for handling customer data, saying current rules deviate too much from the country's privacy laws.
NEWCASTLE, England, May 7 (UPI) -- A British retail chain says it has removed gender-specific displays of "boys" and "girls" toys from its stores after a protest broke out on Facebook.
TORONTO, May 7 (UPI) -- Paleontologists have named a new species of "bone-headed" dinosaur from Canada, so called for a domed skull above its eyes that was almost 2 inches thick.
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7 (UPI) -- Experts say they've found evidence of a Brazilian "Atlantis," a continent that disappeared after Africa and South America separated 100 million years ago.
OLDENBURG, Germany, May 7 (UPI) -- Several U.S. cities are on a list of "hot spots" at risk of invasive species hitching rides in ballast water carried into ports by cargo ships, researchers say.
SYDNEY, May 7 (UPI) -- Earth endured a tectonic upheaval 1.1 billion years ago that saw the world's continents collide and form a single supercontinent, Australian researchers say.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Civil liberty groups are suing two Southern California police agencies over electronic license plate scanner data being stored by law enforcement.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- A dinosaur skeleton at the center of an international custody battle and allegations of illegal smuggling is on its way back to Mongolia, U.S. officials say.
BERLIN, May 7 (UPI) -- A dramatic decline in the number of arctic foxes on a Russian island is linked to dangerous levels of mercury in marine prey, researchers say.
PARIS, May 7 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has selected a satellite that can "weigh" the Earth's forests -- their biomass -- as its next Earth Explorer mission.
SYDNEY, May 7 (UPI) -- Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia disappeared because of climate change, not human activity, researchers say.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 7 (UPI) -- Generation X members are earning graduate and professional degrees at a higher rate than any previous generation, University of Michigan researchers report.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 7 (UPI) -- Google's latest computerized device, the Google Glass, is likely to run into widespread legal challenges, attorneys and market observers say.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 6 (UPI) -- New Zealanders burning treated timber remnants as a cheap way to heat homes have pushed airborne arsenic levels above guidelines, government researchers said.
BEIJING, May 6 (UPI) -- A fossilized elephant tusk at least 10,000 years old has been discovered in eastern China's Anhui province, local authorities said Monday.