After two and a half days of round-the-clock discussions at the end of COP17, global leaders have finally agreed on a course to fight climate change.
On June 5 1981 epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia.
World farm monitors on Wednesday declared that a cattle-killing virus that has been a curse through the ages has been wiped out.
For more than half a century, computers have been obeying "Moore’s Law," a principle named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of chip maker Intel.
The ICC must probe allegations that Robert Mugabe’s youth militia launched a campaign of rape during 2008 elections, a campaign group has said.
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world Aids conference on Tuesday.
The World Cup’s message is this: football is a vehicle of harmony, uniting nations under the banner of sport. What if the truth were not so pretty?.
The UN climate summit hit major turbulence on Monday when developing nations walked out of key negotiations and China accused the West of trickery.
The marathon United Nations climate summit entered its second week on Monday as environment ministers readied closed-door meetings.
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen got down to the nitty-gritty on Tuesday.
Whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness and dry mouth.
Fatty hamburgers, sugar-laden sodas and a couch-potato lifestyle: these are the familiar villains in the crisis of obesity sweeping developed countries. But what if they had been…
A publicity stunt in which a golf ball will be whacked into orbit from the International Space Station has met a chilly reception from scientists, who say the scheme is risky and…
Fed up with the daily grind? Eager for something different? A little glory, perhaps? Well, how about helping a quest to understand the life and death of stars? And how about the…
For nearly five months, he led his pursuers a merry dance, swimming nearly half a kilometre across open sea to a new home, laughing at the traps and the poisoned baits and the…
Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world. The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a…
Europe’s first mission to the moon, the unmanned exploratory probe <i>Smart-1</i>, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space…
