China hopes its middle class will expand to more than half of its total population by 2020, a Communist Party planner said Wednesday. Complete Story...
Toddlers rescued from orphanages and placed in good foster homes score dramatically higher on IQ tests years later than children who were left behind, concludes a one-of-a-kind project in Romania that has profound implications for child welfare around the globe.
If the world is committed to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable economic growth, the powers of using agriculture for development must be unleashed, the World Bank said Friday.
Countries with the largest number of disadvantaged children (Source: The Lancet)
The United Nations ranked Norway as the best country to live in for a sixth consecutive year Thursday, prompting the country's aid minister to tell Norwegians to stop whining about wanting more.
New Mexico Tech researchers have developed a sensor that uses the light-emitting properties of some nanoparticles to analyze and identify individual components of single strands of DNA and RNA.
Microsoft Corp. will run free episodes of the quirky TV comedy "Arrested Development" through its MSN Video service later this year, making the show available online for the first time.
A scheme to give one million low-cost laptops to Nigerian schoolchildren has stalled because some policymakers say the money would be better spent on other educational projects, while government officials and private computer companies have actively worked to undermine the projec …
By Shaheen Buneri Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) that held on 11th-13th December, 2007 in Kaula Lampur Malaysia was a unique gathering of global visionaries, innovators, practitioners and policy makers who had come to share knowledge and build partnerships on a platform …
Weeks before it is to begin, an ambitious American aid plan to counter militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas is threatened by important unresolved questions about who will monitor the money and whether it could fall into the wrong hands, according to American and Pakistani offici …
A new generation of nuclear power plants could burn 100 tonnes of surplus weapons-grade plutonium as a good way of keeping it away from terrorists, according to scientists working for the European Union.
For 60 years the world has faced no greater threat than nuclear weapons.
Iran will soon announce international tender for construction of 19 new 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants, Rapporteur of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Kazem Jalali, said on Sunday.
MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov begins on Sunday his two-day working visit to Libya to discuss closer bilateral cooperation, regional and international issues.
Visitors sometimes get a little panicky over Patricia Anderson's up-close, backyard view of the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear plant across the Delaware River from her home northeast of Odessa.
PAYETTE, Idaho (AP) - A proposal for a nuclear power plant just east of the Oregon border in Idaho has raised some concerns and drawn support. The idea has been advanced by a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, which Warren Buffett controls
The first bullet train designed and manufactured in China with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour rolled off the production line on Saturday morning. The train was the latest model in the country's China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series.
Located on East-West Highway, minutes from the University of Maryland and the Hyattsville Arts District, the community will feature 326 luxury rental units and 70 condominium units, consisting of studios and one- and two- bedroom homes.
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia offered Wednesday to help Libya in its pursuit of nuclear energy and announced a visit to the former pariah state this weekend by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a report said.
The nuclear arms race may be behind us, but a new nuclear power race has just begun, and the Tennessee Valley Authority hopes to win it.
(Dec. 20) -- The lobster is at the forefront of the next new weapon in the war on terror: a handheld device that could help Homeland Security agents see through wood, concrete and steel.
Meanwhile, a pioneer of pro-poor technologies is behind a new organization that will churn out even more ideas.
This article is a summary and commentary on recent research connecting HIV prevalence and rates of infection by various parasitic worms. The author provides several suggestions for progressing further in the treatment or prevention of HIV and helminth infection.
Massive commercial power developments are being considered for existing and planned conservancy areas on the B.C.
Here's how it works: Contestants are offered four definitions for a word; by clicking on the right definition, a donation of 20 grains of rice is made to the U.N. World Food Programme. The U.N. distributes the rice worldwide.
The ranking Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee may be retiring next year, but he is still pushing hard to give the nuclear power industry a helping hand from the federal government.
People suffering from chronic mental or physical disabilities should not resort to a dolphin "healing" experience, warn two researchers from Emory University.
I was consulted to facilitate a seminar on diversity to a group of managers in the UK some time ago. With it being on human resource management and the treatment of diverse people in the workplace, I adopted my usual approach to check out perceptions.
Plant Vogtle is already one of the largest water users on the Savannah River To Savannah officials, the cooling towers at the Vogtle nuclear power plant are beginning to look like enormous straws.
While we may not agree on the federal government's role in solving our nation's energy crisis, we both agree that the latest attempt by the nuclear industry to secure expensive subsidies on the backs of the taxpayers is a bridge too far. When Congress passed the Energy Polic …
The future of Pakistan as a state having a moderate civil society will remain at stake unless we wake up. A massive military operation, such as the one being carried out in Swat, is one way of dealing with the growing Talibanisation.