An array of six radiotelescopes scattered across Britain, working cooperatively with the Hubble Space Telescope, has captured the first image ever recorded of an unbroken "Einstein ring," a circle of
As many as 121 suspected cases of "Monkey's disease", which claimed 29 lives from 1991 to 1996 in Karnataka, has been detected in the state between November 1997, and March 1998, a top official of
The kangaroo population in Australia has boomed to a record 25 million, outnumbering the human population of 18.5 million, according to a new survey published today by the commonwealth scientific and
A U.N. funded think tank said that Pakistan, with 50 million illiterate adults, should amend its constitution to make primary education compulsory and give schooling the first claim on budgetary
Most climbers scale Mount Everest because it is there. But a team of American climbers is planning to trek to the top of the world's highest peak to clear the waste which has piled up just below the
Two conservative U.S. congressmen are sponsoring legislation which would forgive $400 million of debt owed by developing countries if the money is used to save rain forests. The Tropical Forest
RHONE Poulence, the seventh largest pharmaceutical group in the world, has launched a preservation programme for the Taj Mahal involving a total outlay of
At least 35 people have died in southern US states from devastating tornados that sliced a wide swath of destruction through Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, officials said on
A city scientist, who drew international media attention late last year claiming to have discovered an insulin-shot substitute, said he was weary of waiting for a
