Year: 2015

LONDON: The Amazonian rainforest has lost much of its ability to absorb climate-altering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, scientists report. ...

SYDNEY: As some tucked into bed, others marvelled at a rare aurora australis spilling a rich palette of fluorescent hues ...

MEXICO: In 1834, Charles Darwin discovered a very strange set of bones as his famous HMS Beagle was surveying the ...

MUMBAI: The Indian rupee gained 9 paisa to 62.72 against the US dollar in early trade today at the Interbank ...

LONDON: The Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Geographic Society praised action by the British government today to create the ...

BRENT: The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have jointly developed a “drone”, using a ...

SINGAPORE: An unexpectedly dovish stance by Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen sent the Singapore dollar jumping on Thursday morning as ...

WASHINGTON: Planetary rings have been famous for looping about Saturn and other gas giants for quite some time, but recently, ...

CANADA: A recently conducted study revealed that early ancestors of today’s shrimp were quite large, but were known to be ...

PARIS: Scientists have discovered the beautifully preserved fossils of a huge arthropod -- the group that includes crabs, scorpions, insects, ...

NEW YORK: Scientists have proved one of the basic assumptions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity – the idea ...

SYDNEY: Following Microsoft's acquisition of the 'Gears of War' franchise, the company turned over development from Epic Games to the ...

SYDNEY: The Adobe Flash Player 17 free download is the next version in line, and even before it is released, ...

NEW YORK: Traders sold shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) on strength during trading on Wednesday, American Banking & Market News reports. ...

BEIJING: Microsoft has said that it will partner Lenovo and Xiaomi to develop smart devices that runs the latest version ...

LONDON: Nvidia has announced its newest and most powerful graphics card, the GTX Titan X, which will hit the stores ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has signed an agreement with National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak). Under the terms of the ...

KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Crime Cell has almost finalised its investigation into Vehicles Amnesty Scheme (VAS) scam. Reliable ...

LAHORE: The Motor Branch of the Excise and Taxation Lahore has seized documents of more than 1,100 vehicles in one ...

KARACHI: One and a half kilograms of off white heroin was recovered from a parcel destined for Toronto, Canada, by ...