Idea of new windfall tax to ease the pain fails to gain the support of British govt Consumer protection organization Citizens Advice has said that…
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US President Barack Obama said yesterday he is sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan by next summer to speed the battle against the Taliban…
A SPACEWALKING astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station. Expectant father Randolph…
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for making change possible in East Germany as she visited what was once a fortified…
AMERICANS Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories…
AGRICULTURAL scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the green revolution who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving…
RESEARCHERS in Israel say they have developed a computer program that can decipher previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to a Google-like…
RELIGIOUS authorities in Malaysia postponed yesterday the caning of a Muslim woman convicted of drinking alcohol until after the holy month of Ramadan. The planned…
THE first astronauts to walk on the moon want United States President Barack Obama to aim for a new goal: Mars. Early this morning (Singapore…