Gabon's opposition says it was cheated of victory, after official results showed a turnout of 99.93% in President Ali Bongo's home region, with 95% of votes in his favour. Elizabeth Blunt has witnessed many elections across Africa, as both a BBC journalist and election observer and looks at six signs of possible election rigging.

Authored by Joshua Hochschild via AmericanMind.org, Let's say you've long been disaffected with political parties. You don't trust them. You care about politics, but you don't see much promise in the standard candidates. Let's even say you have suspicions the two parties are more interested in their own power than in helping the country.

Since 2010, various US agencies have been developing a top-secret artificial intelligence system that they called Sentient, a term that translates as "conscious" or "endowed with senses." The documents confidential and classified recently published by The Verge describes the Program Sentient National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as an intelligence system fully integrated system that can coordinate satellite positions, and will soon be used to manage operations in the battlefield during military clashes.

Many of the world's biggest fashion brands and retailers are complicit in the forced labour and human rights violations being perpetrated on millions of Uighur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, says a coalition of more than 180 human rights groups.

Two Lithuanian companies and a Nobel Prize-winning professor have created and demonstrated a laser powerful enough to reduce nuclear waste decay from hundreds of years to just a few hours. The Single Cycle Laser SYLOS uses technology that 'transmutes' nuclear waste by bombarding atoms, and is being developed by 2018 Nobel Physics Prize co-winner, Professor Gerard Mourou.

n an interesting twist of events, a 2007 video clip has resurfaced, during which then-U.S. senator and soon-to-be vice presidential running mate Joe Biden seemingly brags to David Letterman about the time he got arrested at the Capitol. Yes, Joe Biden was arrested for breaking into the Capitol. Oh, the irony!