Several million fewer girls were born worldwide due to leakage of radioactive elements from nuclear tests and power plant accidents in the last 50 years, a new study has revealed.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jun 07, 2011
U.S. director Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival Sunday for The Tree of Life, a meditative, metaphysical epic starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
Johnathan Davis
May 22, 2011
John Demjanjuk has been convicted of helping Nazi in massacring 28,000 Jews at Sobibor camp during Holocaust, to five years in prison by a German court on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 12, 2011
Japan's fragile post-disaster political truce unraveled on Thursday as the head of the main opposition party called on unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit over his handling of the country's natural calamities and a nuclear crisis.
Palash Ghosh
Apr 14, 2011
Lionel Messi's 48th goal of the season saw Barcelona beat Shakhtar Donetsk by an aggregate of 6-1 in Ukraine.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 13, 2011
Barcelona and Manchester United advanced to the semi finals of the UEFA Champions League after victories against Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea respectively.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 12, 2011
Lionel Messi's 48th goal of the season saw Barcelona beat Shakhtar Donetsk by an aggregate of 6-1 in Ukraine.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 12, 2011
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operated the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, may be subject to up to 2-trillion yen ($23.6-billion) in compensation claims by local communities, according to a study by JP Morgan.
Palash Ghosh
Apr 12, 2011
Here's a combination of images taken in 1982 and on March 31, 2011, showing before and 25 years after view of the abandoned city of Prypiat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in North Ukraine.
Sanskrity Sinha
Apr 11, 2011
The nuclear crisis at the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant is now rated just two notches below the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine after Japanese authorities raised the alert level at the site to five from four (on a seven-point global scale for such incidents.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 18, 2011
The nuclear crisis in earthquake-ravaged Japan has hit a new peak of worry – engineers are concerned that two more reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex may have become unstable.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 15, 2011
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has drawn comparisons to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. According to some experts, while they are very different, the consequences could be as bad or worse if authorities in Japan fail to prevent a meltdown.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Some facts about US nuclear industry in the wake of a second explosion at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 14, 2011
Threat of a possible meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has placed the roadmap of nuclear power as a source of energy on the back foot.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 14, 2011
Each year, on March 8, women around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In 2011, women (and some men) in over 100 countries celebrated this holiday. It was a well-received and joyous event in most places.
Hao Li
Mar 09, 2011
International Business Times spoke to Dilshod A. Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, and an expert on the Middle East and Islam about the feasibility of Arab nations emulating the models found in Turkey and Indonesia. Here is part 2 of the interview:
Palash Ghosh
Mar 01, 2011
Iran is believed to have told the U.N. atomic watchdog a broken pump is forcing it to remove fuel from its first nuclear power reactor, a new setback for the $1 billion (615 million pounds) project, experts familiar with the issue said on Monday.
Jack Kim
Feb 28, 2011
Russia's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be in focus as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets European Union leaders on Thursday, but business leaders and trade officials from the U.S., EU and the WTO think Russia's entry is going to be difficult, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Jijo Jacob
Feb 23, 2011
Russia’s leading search engine Yandex is set to raise $1 billion through an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Shankar besta
Feb 21, 2011
Marat Mihaylich, a native of Ukraine, has topped the list of criminals wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Shankar besta
Feb 18, 2011
Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.
Joy Lee
Feb 12, 2011
Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, India, on Friday to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at “Asia’s premiere air show,” Aero India 2011.
Sanskrity Sinha
Feb 05, 2011