Popular mapping service Google Earth will launch a new feature called Sky, a virtual telescope that the search engine hopes will turn millions of Internet users into stargazers.
Homes and farmland drowned in increasingly severe floods are affecting some 500 million people a year and straining relief efforts, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.
Rescue officials and soldiers were rushing food to central Vietnam on Thursday asthousands needed urgent aid.
The average price for land in Japan rose 8.6 percent to 126,000 yen ($1,050) per square meter at the start of 2007 compared to the previous year, The National Tax Agency said on Wednesday.
China expects auto exports to grow by 48.5 percent in this year compared to 2006, according to a government forecast.
State restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and stifle feared political opposition, a new report says.
Organizers want to set a new standard for recycling mountains of trash and gases generated by the events.
General Electric Co. expects to increase its revenues in stable developing countries like Turkey at a rate of two or three times their gross national product (GNP) growth, a regional director said on Wednesday.
Travelers in East Asia may soon find it much easier to use public transportation across all three countries.
Congo is ready to cancel more than half its timber contracts to protect the world's second biggest tropical forest but it wants more aid from foreign governments to help do so, the environment minister said.
The head of U.S. Air Force intelligence and surveillance on Thursday said data available commercially through online mapping software such as Google Earth posed a danger to security but could not be rolled back.
GPT Group, one of Australia’s largest diversified property trusts, reported moderate March quarter growth on Wednesday, helped by increased consumer confidence and interest rate stability.
Norwegian Statoil (STO) opened up its first exploration well on land in the Sahara Desert in Algeria, the company said on Thursday.
Google Inc. announced on Monday that it has released an add-on for its Google Earth software, allowing users to find election information across the country.
The Kyrgyz Republic has made impressive progress since its economic and political transition to a market-based economy, but some continued reform remains important, the WTO Secretariat reported on Monday.
Google Inc.'s Michael Jones likes to take pictures with a super high-resolution camera like those used on spy planes during the Cold War.
Australian property investors are sending huge amounts of investment offshore in search of higher returns and diversified portfolios.
As the author CS Lewis once put it, 100 per cent of us die. But this statistic seems to be lost on many Australians, with too many bread winners punting on longevity, leaving them underinsured when it comes to supporting their families if they suddenly die, a new survey shows.
The world can promote development in Africa by supporting the private sector in Africa, as Spanish businesses agreed to do this week, and combating people-trafficking mafias, according to a non-governmental aid group.
Africa'S deepening engagement with Asia's two economic giants-China and India-holds enormous potential for economic growth in Africa, according to a new report by the World Bank, released September 9.
Investors who have seen energy prices rocket due to scarce supplies are starting to wager that forecasted shortages will cause the value of water to skyrocket
Google Inc. released new updates for Google Earth on Wednesday allowing users to place overlays on top of it s popular earth viewing software.
