An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official said.

Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its “Glass” wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere — including to the crowded bathrooms.

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

In a parking lot near the East River in Manhattan, Adriana Alltari gathers her courage, lifts her feet off the ground and wobbles away on New York's latest mode of public transport: a bicycle.

When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark “Dia de los Muertos,” the name of the traditional Day of the Dead celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S., the cartoonist had an idea.

A small, weathered piece of silver has finally finished its journey from a backyard in Southern France to the 90-year-old U.S. veteran who lost his identification on the battlefield during World War II.

More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roads each year, the World Health Organization said Thursday, slamming decades of neglect in favor of vehicle transportation.

John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has died at age 80.

Australia's first banknote, printed 100 years ago and found in a letter in England in 1999, has gone on sale for AU$3.5 million (US$3.6 million), auctioneers said Wednesday.

With Google's voice assistant now available on iPhones and iPads, The Associated Press used an iPad Mini to throw five test questions at Google Now and Siri on Monday afternoon in New York. Here's what the two digital assistants had to say for themselves: