Turkey has proved itself to be Somalia's best friend, and may the only country in the world actively trying to make Somalia a better place.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, a near Earth asteroid, will not hit Earth in 2013 but will come pretty close, according to NASA researchers. On Feb.15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass Earth at a distance of about 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles), which Discover Magazine said is well beneath many of the Earth's own orbiting satellites.
A mammoth geomagnetic storm, apparently the biggest in last five years, is expected to hit the Earth’s surface Thursday.
The largest solar flare in five years is headed toward Earth and could cause problems, according to NASA.
Spiders have reportedly spun webs around trees, plants and bushes to escape flood waters.
One of the worst affected areas was the New South Wales town of Wagga Wagga, where 8,000 people were ordered to abandon their homes amid warnings flood waters were expected to breach an 11-meter levee, Reuters reported.
Thicker sea ice is melting faster than thinner ice, a finding that brings new worry over the future of the Arctic.
The much beleaguered people of Greece have apparently turned the bulk of their anger upon Germany, the most powerful economy in Europe.
Mass Effect 3 is set to hit stores next week on March 6th, and developer BioWare just released a trailer for the third installment of the action-adventure space shooter franchise.
Copper miner Kazakhmys posted a flat core profit for 2011 as stronger metal prices were offset by an 18 percent rise in production costs, including soaring wages for skilled workers in Kazakhstan, home to its core operations.
The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work.
At least 272 inmates died when a fire broke out in a prison in Honduras Tuesday night.
The oldest living thing on Earth has been discovered to be a self-cloning seagrass known as the Posidonia oceanica. Often found in the Mediterranean, researchers estimate that the Posidonia oceanica could be almost 200,000 years old. Check out 5 other oldest living organisms on Earth.
The oldest living thing on Earth has been discovered to be a self-cloning seagrass in the Mediterranean.
Japan aims to cut domestic consumption of a heavy rare earth used widely in hybrid cars and electronics by 30 percent over the next two years as China keeps a tight grip on exports of the material, known as dysprosium.
When Harper first took office in 2006, relations between Canada and China were cold,.
The biggest mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the Earth's marine life occurred in phases and took hundreds of thousands of years to complete, experts have said.
A 15-year-old boy from Hong Kong stabbed his mother and sister to death because he apparently believed that there were way too many people in the world, and that fewer people would be more environment-friendly, the South China Morning Post reported.
Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's Environment Ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves to radiators in the minister's office in an attempt to stop approval for Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town.
NASA released a stunning image of Earth, shot from the International Space Station (ISS) when it flew roughly 240 miles overhead, capturing the dazzling city lights of Europe at night.
The building took three years to construct and involved 1,200 Chinese and Ethiopian workers.
The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 36,750 miles of Earth at 10:30 a.m. ET on Friday. That was its closest approach. The small asteroid, about 37 feet wide, would have broken up in the Earth's atmosphere before it could have made impact anyway, so it never really posed a threat, according to NASA.
