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China has announced its first firm target to cut carbon dioxide emissions, ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen next month Officials announced Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, would personally take the offer to the summit a day after Barack Obama,...

We usually associate robots with activities connected to science and technology. They are seen in sci-fi movies and Robocop was all about Robot Policemen. But, Japan has brought the robots to the level of the common man. The Japanese robots...

Wash. — Police searching for a man in connection with the coffee-shop slaying of four police officers surrounded a house in a Seattle neighborhood late Sunday night. Investigators were following up a lead on a "person of interest," and were...

Sometimes, history's turning points come in blood and gunfire, and sometimes in pen and ink...Its members, dedicated to discovery through observation and experiment, form a roll-call of scientific fame: Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking.

A TV station in Alabama is learning that live Twitter billboards sometimes deliver unintended consequences. A curious driver manages to take a picture of the billboard while the hilarious tweet was being aired, little did the person know that the...

The successful launch of New Zealand’s first suborbital rocket has created history today by being the first rocket launched into space by a privately owned company in the southern hemisphere.Atea-1 made its maiden voyage today after this morning’s delay due...

Prime Minister Climate Change Council has suggested eight missions. India gave an approval to deal with the project on Global warming and to increase its dependence on solar energy. The first mission is of Jawahar Lal Nehru solar National Energy...

The Fastest iPhone Ever The first thing you’ll notice about iPhone 3GS is how quickly you can launch applications. Web pages render in a fraction of the time, and you can view email attachments faster. Improved performance and updated 3D...

These days it seems everywhere you turn is someone with a phone stuck to their ear. A study shows that 70% of the teen aged population in the United States owns a mobile phone. The latest phones do more than...