Australian Industry and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane on Monday predicted that Australia could have its first nuclear power plant within a decade.

China has received a total of 870,000 international students since it launched its reform and opening-up drive in the late 1970s, said an official with the Ministry of Education.

Apple's Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said on Monday that Microsoft's Zune is so slow that in a romantic setting by the time a song plays, "the girl's got up and left!"

China's "Spark Program" which is aimed at popularizing modern technology in rural areas has been spread to more than 90 percent of the country's counties, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) announced Sunday.

A simple toggle on and off of an electrical relay was all it took Friday for NASA engineers to restore power to the Hubble Space Telescope's main camera. It was the second time this year the camera had shut down.

Sony Thursday unveiled its lastest Walkman digital music players, in a bid to battle Apple Computer's iPod, according to media reports.

Chinese acupuncture can cure 461 diseases, said an expert with Chinese Acupuncture Clinic Research Center in north China's Tianjin city.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday warned diabetics not to use counterfeit blood glucose test strips that are being sold for use with various models of LifeScan Inc. One Touch brand blood glucose monitors.

China's education authority warned students against cheating as a national college entrance exam kicked off on Saturday, with an attendance of 2.81 million.

The European Commission (EC) on Friday warned U.S. software giant Microsoft over its planned delivery of the new Windows operating system, Vista.