The U.S. military is vulnerable to China's advanced war-fighting systems, including space weapons and computer attacks that would be used in a future conflict over Taiwan, according to a congressional commission's report released yesterday.
Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack.
Britain is doubling its stockpile of antiviral medicines in preparation for any future flu pandemic, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
The Philippines began evacuating tens of thousands of people from coastal areas in the central Bicol region as typhoon Mitag gathered strength, officials said on Thursday.
Amid reports that China and India will hold their first joint military exercise next month, the two countries Wednesday reiterated they were ready to take their strategic cooperative partnership to a "new level".
Let us not forget the context of Smith's determination to hang on to white rule in the 1960s.
A trio of the world's leading financial and economic analysts yesterday sounded a grim warning about the effects of the global "credit crunch".
Billions of pounds were spent telling us we were ALL at risk from Aids, but as scientists now admit the threat was overblown.
Welcome to HM Revenue and Customs, the Government department charged with handling your most sensitive and private information. The staff wear tracksuit bottoms, baseball caps and scruffy T shirts, many do not have a GCSE and their training is described as "a joke".
China has refused permission for a U.S. aircraft carrier and accompanying vessels to visit Hong Kong for a long-planned Thanksgiving holiday visit, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
The UK fishing industry is warning it faces ruin because of EU quotas which result in thousands of tonnes of dead fish being dumped back into the sea.
Italian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a female wolf suckled the city's twin founders.
The local police precinct in the village of Matta has a new sign: Taliban Station.
Driven by a combination of climate change, trade policies and competition for cattle feed from biofuel producers, GLOBAL MILK PRICES HAVE DOUBLED OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS.
Large areas of south China are suffering from serious drought, with water levels on two major rivers in rice-growing provinces dropping to historic lows, state media said on Tuesday.