If you’re the type who worries about the air miles travelled by fruit and veg, then these beauties aren’t for you. Because they have travelled a little further than most. The seeds from which they grew were fired into space, where they...

Casualties in an earthquake in China’s southwest Sichuan province, the worse in more than three decades, have been raised to nearly 8,000 people, according to China’s official news reports.

“It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars.”

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s ties to Colombian rebels are deeper than previously thought, U.S. officials said on Friday, following an analysis of files on a dead guerrilla leader’s laptops. The files appear to be authentic and...

A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation’s commercially managed hives lost since last year.

Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee.

Farmers in Argentina say they will resume protests against tax increases on food exports, following the collapse of talks with the government. Farm leaders say they plan to prevent shipments of grain from leaving. Argentina is one of the world’s...

Pakistan’s Election Commission has announced that delayed by-elections will now be held on 26 June. The last date to submit nomination papers is 13 May, a spokesman said. Eight national assembly seats and 30 provincial ones are up for...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democratic officials and donors. Some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about...

The history of planet Earth is a fascinating story, involving catastrophic collisions with other small planets and a veritable plethora of asteroid impacts. The prevailing theory about the formation of the moon is called the giant impact hypothesis: the...