China's central government is launching another round of efforts to curb unreasonable school fees to ensure that students in medium and low-income families have access to tuition.

Contrary to what many experts predicted, Chinese scientists have found no evidence in the middle and eastern part of the Himalayas that the Himalayan glaciers are retreating rapidly or melting fast.

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the largest monolith ever discovered near Mexico City's main square.

Windows Vista has yet to hit the market, but when it does consumers will be able to transfer the OS license from the original computer to a second computer only once, according to a Microsoft statement Monday.

The Northeast China Agricultural University (NCAU), the Harbin Municipal Science & Technical Bureau and their cooperative unit announced their successful cloning of local pigs with the use of somatic cells last Saturday. Three cloned baby pigs have been doing well and normally since their birth on October 12.

The European Union (EU) is to implement tougher measures to improve energy efficiency, according to an action plan which will be unveiled by the European Commission on Thursday.

Scientists from the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR) in Russia, have discovered the newest superheavy element, element 118.

A Chinese student was killed ina fire Monday in Blockhouse Bay in Auckland, said the Police.

A vintage Beatles song lyrics say "red is the color of my true love's hair" and now Apple is joining with U2 lead singer Bono and Bobby Shriver to express compassion for AIDS sufferers in Africa by contributing a portion of its revenue from a bright red iPod Nano to the struggle against the disease.

Restrictions placed on Microsoft Inc.'s Windows Vista by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission will delay the release of some versions of the new operating system in that country, said the software maker on Friday.