Year: 2015

AMSTERDAM: American package delivery firm FedEx has made a €4.4bn all cash offer for Dutch peer TNT Express, both firms ...

  MUSCAT: Tenders worth RO 285 million were awarded by the Tender Board since the beginning of this year in ...

FRANCE: Astronomers observed formation of massive star, called W75N(B)-VLA 2, over the period of 18 years. Pair of images of ...

ROME: The Italian National Statistical Office shows an increase in the Government's fiscal deficit in 2014 despite a further significant ...

BRENT: Since 2007, telescopes have picked up almost a dozen of 'fast radio bursts', pulses that last for milliseconds. Astronomers ...

ROME: eClerx Services, an outsourcing company announced plans to acquire 100 per cent stake in Italian digital services company CLX ...

WASHINGTON: Researchers from the University of Utah set out to demonstrate that despite current beliefs, rocky planets like our own ...

CANADA: While much attention has been given to the ability of the Mars rover Curiosity’s ability to gather and analyze ...

EALING: Spiders are interesting creatures. They don’t rely solely on their muscles to move. They rather use a combination of ...

HARROW: Scientists have long wondered how the Blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata), a songbird that weighs a mere 12g – about ...

SYDNEY: Customs office at Sydney Airport has been evacuated with about 40 people forced from a building where smoke is ...

MEXICO: It looks like the sky of an alien world, or a portent for the coming apocalypse, but this photo ...

HONG KONG: Researchers have seemingly solved the mystery as to why only humans of all mammals have chins and according ...

MEXICO: Traits passed between generations are not decided only by DNA, but can be brought about by other materials in ...

LONDON: Engineers have come up with a motor-free device to make walking more efficient and easier - something scientists once ...

LONDON: Research indicates that the hominid fossil termed as Little Foot which was uncovered in a cave in South Africa ...

HONG KONG: A new study has found that a "sixth sense" could be helping blind rats "see" enough to navigate ...

PARIS: Using archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf ...

SYDNEY:"Australia, you are very beautiful," was the gobsmacked reaction of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly as he soared above the nation's ...

HONG KONG: Scientists don't think polar bears have much of a chance if they are forced off of sea ice ...