Year: 2015

CANADA: An ancient native Australian plant species that has survived for almost 750,000 years and even under drought conditions could ...

BEIJING: A skull of an elephant species dating back to around six million years has been discovered in southwest China’s ...

MEXICO: New findings from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) states that the ferocious bombardment of solar particles ...

WELLINGTON: The manufacturing industry used around 157,000 terajoules of energy in 2014, down 8 percent from 2012, Statistics New Zealand ...

HONG KONG: NASA scientists have come up with new findings that air on Mars is leaking away slowly into space ...

SHARJAH: Not long ago, Oppo introduced a new device in the R7 series in Dubai. Now, the Oppo R7s smartphone ...

HARROW: With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in northeastern Brazil, an international team of paleontologists has identified several amphibian ...

WELLINGTON: General Electric Co. has agreed to sell its Australian commercial-lending operation to Sankaty Advisors, the global credit affiliate of ...

NEW YORK: Your Facebook feed is about to get a lot more musical. The social network is rolling out a ...

FRANCE: A team of scientists in Canada are working to breed a new set of honeybees with resistance to disease ...

BEIJING: China’s stocks rose to a 11-week high as the government’s plan to resume initial public offerings by the end ...

CANBERRA:  Australian shares plunged to more than one-month lows on Monday as investors fretted about tumbling commodity prices and the ...

BEIJING: China imported 75.52 million tonnes of iron ore in October, down 12.3 percent from the previous month, official data ...

BEIJING: Zhanjiang Customs District, along with Zhanjiang Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, intercepted an in-truck cigarette smuggling and seized 160 cartons of ...

HCM CITY: Vietnamese and Japanese researchers have developed technologies to reduce proteins in natural rubber, thereby permitting the production of ...

SYDNEY: The Australian sharemarket has retreated further at noon as investors grapple with the implications of a US Federal Reserve ...

HARROW: A significant haul of fossils in East Timor has revealed seven new giant rat species, one of which was ...

TIRANA: Albania's public debt reached a record level of 73.7 percent of its GDP in September, surpassing debt limits set ...

CANADA: A team of astronomers from the National Center for Radio Astrophysics in India discovered a Giant Radio Galaxy (GRG) ...

LONDON: Spacewalking astronauts encountered leaking problems while trying to service the cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS) . ...