29 Mar 2005 10:28 AM

The International Space Station’s astronauts completed their spacewalk work just before the station drifted and rolled slightly because of overloaded gyroscopes. Dr. Leroy

29 Mar 2005 09:54 AM

The upper house of the old Kyrgyz parliament was ousted Tuesday after enduring intesnsive pressure from the opposititional parliament which is from now announced to consist of only one house.

29 Mar 2005 09:47 AM

Last night an 8.7 magnitude earthquake on the Indonesian island of Nias took lives of more than 1,000 people. Panic was sparked across the Indian Ocean region, still traumatised by the Boxing. Today

29 Mar 2005 09:44 AM

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was criticized after investigators started probing the UN’s oil-for-food programme in Iraq, which was said to ignore a conflict of interest involving Annan’s son. Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman who held an independent check out of oil-for-food program

29 Mar 2005 09:37 AM

Terri Schiavo made one more step to death as she spent the eleventh day without her feeding tube. The tube was removed and will not be reinserted after a federal judge refused the appeal of Terri’s parents on March 26 in

29 Mar 2005 07:15 AM

India, the third biggest oil consumer in Asia, said it would launch the pipeline talks with Pakistan. The pipeline will carry Iranian natural gas through Pakistan to South Asia.

29 Mar 2005 07:03 AM

The International Monetary Fund will not see the renewed loan agreement with Brazil, the country’s officials said. The 2003 agreement which expires this year will not be renewed, Brazil said. The decision was supported even by the country’s opposition.

28 Mar 2005 09:11 PM

Japan faced a land prices decline for a 14th-consecutive year nationwide in 2004, but a recent slowdown in the pace of declines can serve as sign that the situation at the country’s long-struggling property market might be improving. Japanese residential land prices declined an average 4.6% last year, slower than in 2003, according to the data

28 Mar 2005 11:30 AM

It was the first time since the Communist forces came to power on the mainland in 1949 when the opposition Nationalist Party members in Taiwan have visited to China.

28 Mar 2005 11:13 AM

The French President Jacque Chirac claimed that EU and Japan will soon set an agreement concerning the site of a proposed experimental nuclear fusion reactor.

28 Mar 2005 11:03 AM

Indian oil minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has an option to visit Pakistan in the course of negotiations over the pipeline that will carry Iranian natural gas through Pakistan to South Asia. The visit is scheduled for May.

28 Mar 2005 10:47 AM

The Pentagon has awarded $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" project to use robots in battlefield surgery.

28 Mar 2005 10:22 AM

The Pope of Rome John Paul II sent «warm wishes» to the ailing Prince of Monaco Rainier on Sunday. Rainier’s condition remains serious, but stable, doctors say.

28 Mar 2005 10:16 AM

South Korea is likely to aid the North Korea fight with bird flue spreading, reported Korean new agencies on Monday. It was also said that South Korean health and agriculture officials will organize a meeting in order to decode which measures should be taken against the outbreak.

28 Mar 2005 10:04 AM

The crowds of people were happy to see the Pope that was trying to give his blessing to the crowd from his window shortly after the service was over.