Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to avert climate catastrophe. More »Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years ago
Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science. More »Australia hails surprise super-telescope decision
SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to send its own cargo capsule to the International Space Station, heralding the start of a new era for private spaceflight. More »SpaceX's Dragon makes historic space station dock
Australia and South Africa will share the hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes which will help scientists better understand the make-up of the universe. More »Split hosts for giant telescope
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - With rousing speeches, patriotic music and support from actor Sean Connery, supporters of independence for Scotland launched a campaign on Friday which they hope will lead to the demise of a 305-year-old union with England and the breakup of Britain. "This is the beginning of something really special - the beginning of the campaign to restore nationhood to Scotland," Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), told hundreds of supporters in a hall in the capital Edinburgh. "We want a Scotland that is fairer and more prosperous. ... More »Scots begin push to be a nation once again
Thousands of crustaceans were found dead off the coast of Lima following the mystery mass death of dolphins and pelicans, the Peruvian Navy said Friday. More »Thousands of shellfish found dead in Peru
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc is expected to reach an agreement to buy network security software maker Quest Software Inc as soon as this weekend after a previous deal fell apart, several people familiar with the matter said. Dell is planning to offer between $23 (14.6 pounds) and $26 per share to buy the enterprise systems management software maker, two sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the discussions were not public. ... More »Dell-Quest deal possible over weekend - sources
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Friday vetoed parts of a new forestry code that environmentalists say would lead to further deforestation in the Amazon, home to the world's largest collection of plants and animals. More »Brazil leader vetoes parts of law opening up Amazon
SpaceX on Friday became the first commercial outfit to send its own cargo capsule to the International Space Station, heralding the start of a new era for private spaceflight. More »SpaceX's Dragon makes historic space station dock
Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new global climate pact by 2015, talks stumbled at a crucial preparatory meeting Friday as rich and poorer countries butted heads. More »Climate pact process stumbles as countries bicker
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's revolutionaries did not take to the streets to replace Hosni Mubarak with another military strongman or to put an Islamist ideologue in charge, but that is the choice they woke up to after a first-round vote for the presidency. The youths who put national pride before religion when they protested against Mubarak's autocratic rule last year have increasingly despaired, saying the revolution they initiated has been hijacked by generals and the Muslim Brotherhood. ... More »Analysis - Revolutionaries see reversal in Egypt vote
A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa. More »Battle over SKA super-telescope leads to split site
The world's first commercial spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), the climax of its landmark mission. More »First Commercial Craft Reaches Space Station
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - With rousing speeches, patriotic music and support from actor Sean Connery, supporters of independence for Scotland launched a campaign on Friday which they hope will lead to the demise of a 305-year-old union with England and the breakup of Britain. "This is the beginning of something really special - the beginning of the campaign to restore nationhood to Scotland," Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), told hundreds of supporters in hall in the capital Edinburgh. "We want a Scotland that is fairer and more prosperous. ... More »Scots begin push to be a nation once again
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, making history as the first commercial delivery ship in orbit. More »Space station snares the Dragon
The head of the global banking lobby which handled the private debt write-off for Greece warned on Friday that if the country leaves the eurozone, the world economy would suffer badly. More »Greek exit would destabilise world economy: lobby
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EXCLUSIVE: Pocket-lint source tells us "yes" More »Is Facebook about to buy Opera to create own Facebook browser?
(Reuters) - A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to show that Iran has installed more uranium enrichment centrifuges at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant - but that they are not yet being used to refine uranium. Here is a look at the Fordow plant: * Iran began building the plant in secret as early as 2006. It was publicly revealed by U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in September 2009, shortly after their three countries gave the IAEA evidence of the facility. ... More »Factbox - Iran's Fordow plant
SpaceX's Dragon capsule on Friday made its final approach toward the International Space Station, edging closer to the climax of its landmark mission to latch on to the orbiting research lab. More »SpaceX makes final approach to space station
Iraqi MPs are toying with a Saddam-era policy they hope will combat both high unemployment and fears of sectarian divisions in a country that was on the brink of civil war a few years ago: conscription. More »MPs see conscription as possible cure to Iraq woes
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Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country's illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinking forests. More »Cambodian forest campaigners fight rampant logging
LONDON (Reuters) - The location of a huge radio telescope strong enough to detect extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe could be settled on Friday when the group in charge of the project meets in the Netherlands. When completed in 2024 the "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA)will be made up of 3,000 dishes, each 15 metres wide, together with many more antennae, that will stretch over 3,000 km (1,864 miles). ... More »Decision time on site for giant radio telescope
Argentine experts have discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms, according to a leading paleontologist. More »Dinosaur with tiny arms unearthed in Argentina