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…
NORTH Korea announced yesterday it had agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the border with South Korea and restart stalled tourism ventures in…
Gorilla Gana nurses her two-day-old offspring at a zoo in Muenster, Germany, yesterday. The traumatized gorilla who carried around her dead baby’s body for several…
THE Disney movie “G-Force” shows a squad of specially trained, computer-generated guinea pig spies coming to the world’s rescue. After the movie comes out, though,…
AT least 17 people were killed when a passenger plane caught fire during its landing in northeastern Iran yesterday, the state IRNA news agency reported.…
THE United States and India said yesterday that they had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step toward allowing the sale of…
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…
DEFIANTLY low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday tomorrow, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the…
The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper’s unions quickly agree to US$20 million in concessions, the Globe…