University of Manchester scientists have uncovered the 3D structure of Mps1 - a protein that regulates the number of chromosomes during cell division and thus has an essential role in the prevention of cancer - which will lead to the design of safer and...

India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover. This, sources have told The Indian Express, was...

Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.

World figures have paid tribute to Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a day after his death aged 89...News of the Nobel laureate’s death prompted tributes in Russia and around the world...

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, seems to be Booker’s favorite, having won the recent Best of Booker Award. But a little deeper insight provides a different perspective. The impact of colonial era, especially in the commonwealth...

Zimbabweans hunted out coins squirreled away years ago in jars and cupboards and headed for the shops, where lines built up as overburdened tellers used to counting mounds of hyper-inflated dollar notes instead were juggling silver. The central bank,...

German doctors have carried out a complete double arm transplant. The patient was a 54-year-old farmer who lost his limbs in an accident six years ago. The donor is believed to be a teenager who had died shortly before the surgery. Neither man’s...

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian-Serb warlord awaiting trial for genocide, has said high-ranking officials in the 1990s U.S. administration of the former President, Bill Clinton, want him dead and that it would be impossible for him to receive a fair...

At first sight, the idea of a single state in Israel-Palestine is barely intelligible; the region is permeated by bitterness and hate, everyday life there involves pervasive fear and violence, and there is calculated interference by foreign lobbies and...

What is more relevant than the historical record of relations between the two communities is the secular foundations of mordern Indian cicil society.The historical record suggests that neither side had monoply of the truth