Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will be among the four crew members of the first US space shuttle to take off when the program resumes following the Feb 1 Columbia accident.
In what could prove a major embarrassment for the Indian government, a minister who returned from China has revealed he was not tested for SARS when he landed in New Delhi.
After more than a century of expansion of the concept that everybody deserves human rights, we now seem to be -- temporarily, at least -- slipping backwards.
New lab facilities to search for the mysterious "dark matter" of the cosmos 1,100 metres underground are opened by the UK's science minister.
Pope John Paul on Sunday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process discovering the frothy coffee drink cappuccino.
A driver who refused police orders to pull over because he wanted to keep smoking crack in his truck was captured when he mistakenly drove into the police headquarters parking lot, authorities said.