Chinese scientists have developed an advanced underwater security monitoring system which is expected to put into use during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

PlayStation 3 will cost gamers a hefty 600 U.S. dollars when it goes on sale Nov. 17, but Sony executives at Thursday afternoon Gamers' Day were quick to point out that almost everything else associated with the game is free.

Fertilizers, sewage, fossil fuel burning and other pollutants have led to a doubling in the number of oxygen-deficient coastal areas every decade since the 1960s, resulting in a alarming, rapid increase in "dead zones" in the world's oceans, according to a United Nations Enviroment report issued Thursday in Nairobi.

Much of the world will see more deadly heat waves, intense rainstorms and prolonged dry spells before the end of this century, U.S. scientists predicted in a latest study.

Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnyev said on Friday the massive Sakhalin-2 energy project in the Far East could be stopped if it did not comply with Russian environmental laws.

Diesel fuel sold in Belgium will contain a small fraction of bio-diesel as from next month, said VRT news on Friday.

Myanmar will introduce an extra high-speed global telecommunication system (GTS) in international weather forecast data exchange by the end of this year, a local weekly journal reported Friday.

Scientists have created the first cloaking device to demonstrate the theory of hiding an object from electromagnetic radiation.

For the second consecutive year Secunia claims it has found a flaw on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, and this year's flaw is the same as last year.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has developed a new kind of laser processing machine which can engrave complicated patterns on the surfaces of solid materials, according to the official Korean Central News Agency(KCNA).