More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming.

Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought- and heat-resistant traits, like longer roots that suck up water and a capacity to store

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NEW DELHI: The drought in Russia and the floods in Pakistan that have affected wheat production will impact food prices as in 2007-08, says a senior official of the World Food Programme.

WFP Deputy Executive Director Ramiro Lopes da Silva says:

Nepal needs at least US$ 42.7 million from the international community and conservation partners to carry out conservation programmes to meet the global tiger recovery goal and double the wild population of tigers, a meeting was told here on Friday.

As part of celebrations for the International Tiger Year 2010, all 13 tiger range countries have agreed to double the big cats

Boeing Plans To Send Passengers Into Space Photo: Reuters/NASA/Handout
Boeing Co plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday.

Boeing said it reached an agreement with Virginia-based Space Adventures to market passenger seats on commercial flights aboard Boeing's CST-100 space vehicle b

New York City just had its hottest June-to-August stretch on record. Moscow, suffering from a once-in-a-millennium heat wave, tallied thousands of deaths, a toll that included hundreds of inebriated, overheated citizens who stumbled into rivers and lakes and didn

Slips to 51st position in the global business competitiveness index.

Even as emerging markets in Asia showed impressive gains in global business competitiveness in 2010, India slipped two notches to the 51st position over the previous year due to poor health, education and infrastructure facilities.

Among the BRIC nations

Into dust Residents of Kriusha village, in the western Russian region of Ryazan, search through the remains of their charred homes

Five weeks after wildfires began spreading through forests in central and western parts of the country, Russia is still burning.