Launched in 2002, European Space Agency's Envisat is the largest Earth observation spacecraft ever built. It carries ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments to provide continuous......
A 13-year-old Indian-origin boy from Florida has won the 22nd annual National Geographic Bee courtesy his knowledge about Haiti. By correctly answering that Cap-Haitien is the largest city in......
Black tomatoes are being marketed through London supermarkets this week in a bid to meet the Western consumer's insatiable demands for exotic products.The black tomato, also known as a kumato, is......
The coming together of the Quad and the Australia-UK-US grouping would be a formidable adversary, moving toward the creation of a 'thousand ship navy' that reins in the PLA navy in the......
From a volcano spewing ash over the landscape to two kingfishers sharing some food, these are some of the stunning images from around the world that are in the running to be named nature......
It is only in movies or novels that we hear about people getting stranded on a secluded beach after a crash or after their boat went adrift. There are other ways too to get 'stranded' on an island:......
Bill Gates and Paul Allen did it together. So did Queen Beatrice of Holland and Enrique Iglesias. And in 2004, almost 11 million people worldwide did the same thing. Many did it two or three--or......
'He's got such incredible resilience, such an incredible spirit that we were feeding off his strength rather than him feeding off ours.''Sometimes I look back and cannot figure out how the f*** we......