Digital system technologies have been introduced with a view to reducing difficulties surfaced in course of mountain trekking and mountaineering for the first time in Nepal.

South Africa said on Friday that it has extended the campaign to eradicate an outbreak of classical swine fever in the Eastern Cape province by another six months.

They may be black and white, but new research at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Zoo Atlanta shows that giant pandas can see in color.

Construction of a glass fiber network started in Amsterdam on Thursday in a project that will connect 40,000 households in Zeeburg, Osdorp and Amsterdam Oost, Dutch media reported on Friday.

Scientists at Makerere University, in Uganda, along with scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions worldwide, have begun the first clinical safety trial in Africa of a vaccine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding, according to a news release from Johns Hopkins Friday.

China's Ministry of Education has ordered local education departments to inspect sanitary conditions regularly and invest in refurnishing school facilities to ensure the cleanliness of food and drinking water.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 has been given to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 has been awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk "who in the quest for melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures".

Two pilot cables 980 meters long have been successfully fired into a canyon from the construction site of the Sidu River Bridge by two rockets in Hubei Province.

A team of Hong Kong and American researchers have found that nanometer-sized peptide material can 'magically' stop bleeding within 15 seconds.