EARTH

According to a research published online on July 10 in the journal Natural Geoscience, an ancient 56 million-year-old landscape has been found submerged beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands and is being likened to the mysterious lost city of Atlantis.

The hacker has built his own iPad 3 by combining old laptop parts and a touchscreen.

Chinese most senior military commander has criticized the U.S. for its excessive spending on defense and also blamed Washington for rising tensions in the South China Sea.

The skull of one of the largest sea monsters ever found on earth has been unveiled to the public on Friday. Scientists described the creature, which is called pliosaur, as the most fearsome predator ever unearthed.

Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.

Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its seaside launch pad Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.

The death throes of massive stars that have gone supernova are the answer to the long-standing puzzle of what supplied our early universe with dust, according to a new study.

It is not so often that the world greets a new nation into its fold, but that will be the case this Saturday when South Sudan becomes the UN’s 193rd member and the African Union’s 54th.

Honduran police have arrested former Miss Honduras 2009 on charges of money laundering. She failed to declare the equivalent of $47,000 while entering the country.

China is well within its rights, legally and morally, to limit rare earth exports, argued an article in Chinese state media on Thursday, days after the World Trade Organization ruled against China on its curbs of raw materials exports.

The tide of illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. is receding, as many Mexicans choose to pursue careers in their home country, whose economy has improved substantially in the past five years.

A boat traveling between Sudan and Saudi Arabia caught fire, killing most of the refugees on board.

China will reform its export of rare earths based in part on World Trade Organization rules, state media reported on Wednesday, a day after the global trade governing body ruled against its curbs on exports.

Almost 200 illegal African migrants have drowned to death when their boat sunk in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast, according to Sudan’s media.

Japanese scientists have found huge deposits of rare earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, which are used to make high-tech electronics products.

Global warming and the melting of the polar caps is worse than previously thought, according to a new study from the University of Arizona that appeared in Nature Geoscience.

Researchers from Japan have discovered vast quantities of rare earth deposits on the floor of the Pacific Ocean that might challenge the dominance of China as world's leading provider.

Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday.

Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.

The year 2011 was envisioned by many futurologists in the last 100 years to be full of jumpsuits, electronic cars and mobile satellite phones. While some of them came true, many others were not even past their successful trials.

On Fourth of July, 2011, as United States commemorates the adoption of Declaration of Independence, Earth reaches a point called Aphelion on its orbit and will be farthest from Sun than on any other day in 2011.