American scientist Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his work on a key process of life called genetic transcription.

Continued militancy, Taliban's mounting pressure and intimidation have led to the closure of over 300 schools in Afghanistan's southern provinces, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) conducted an exercise on Wednesday to test its readiness in case of a bird flu outbreak.

Anthrax cases have been found in southern Kazakhstan, the Kazakh Telegraph Agency reported Wednesday, citing an announcement from the Emergency Ministry.

Indian capital recorded another dengue death of a 12-year-old girl Wednesday, pulling the toll to 13 while the disease is spreading in north India, local media reported.

Many Chinese have little knowledge of the risks of influenza and a poor sense of prevention, a survey conducted by the Chinese Health Education Association has shown.

Collectors of Chinese art will be able to check the authenticity of artworks on-line in a new official database of artists and their works,

More than 1,000 teachers, students and alumni gathered on Tuesday in central China to mark the 1,030th anniversary of the founding of Yuelu Academy, China's oldest learning institution that is now affiliated to Hunan University.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 has jointly gone to 47 year old Audrew Z. Fire, professor of Stanford University and 46 year old Craig C. Mello, professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vietnam will, sometime this month, import six million doses of bird flu vaccines to be used among white-winged ducks, according to local newspaper Labor on Wednesday.