British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued rallying cry for science on Friday, urging young people to become scientists for their country's future prosperity.

Pakistani Minister for Health Nasir Khan Saturday said Saturday that the death rate from the Dengue fever has dropped down due to the government's effective measures to control the disease.

Leg-stretching surgery for the image conscious has been banned by China's Health Ministry after a spate of botched operations.

Scientists from Europe and China have completed a gene analysis of eight different strains of the SARS virus protein and defined the 3-D protein structure of each, it was announced on November 2.

Are double-fold eyelids, a steep-bridge nose and a little charming mouth the criteria for a typical Chinese beauty? A data bank for three-dimensional survey statistics for cranial and facial bones has been set up in the Oral Cavity and Jaws Plastic Surgery Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital. Analyses of 170 beauties' skeletal statistics by experts show that the fairness of a human is determined by the harmony and symmetry of its facial skeletal system.

Sony Corp. plans to market the world's lightest notebook computer next month in Japan, according to news reports Friday.

Cameras need good light to take good pictures and that is why NASA's super-powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is waiting for a better angle and clear air to begin a photographic search for two Mars probes that disappeared, but are not forgotten.

Thawing glaciers and abundant rainfall have swollen the size of Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province, according to latest monitoring reports.

The loss of ocean populations and species has been accompanied by plummeting catches of wild fish, declines in water quality, and other costly losses, according to an ecologist report.

China will build its own space station in outer space eventually, Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut in space, has said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.