Science & Environment
NASA extends space station life to 2024
The U.S. space agency NASA says it will keep the International Space Station operating for an additional four years, until 2024.First H5N1 bird flu death in North America confirmed in Canada
Canadian health authorities say the first avian flu death in North America, in the western plains province of Alberta, of a patient ...Syrian chemical weapons transfer begins
Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme that ...Russian, Chinese ships free from Antarctic ice
Reports from Antarctica say a Chinese icebreaker and a Russian research vessel broke free from thick ice on Tuesday, with both vessels ...Polar freeze grips United States, disrupting travel, business
The dangerously cold weather that has turned the midwestern United States into one huge deep freeze is expected to move east and ...Brazil floods force more than 40,000 to flee homes
Intense rain and flooding in southeast Brazil have killed at least six people and forced 40,000 more to leave their homes.US astronauts embark on spacewalk
Astronauts from the U.S. space agency will begin a series of spacewalks Saturday to repair a faulty pump on the International Space ...Judge rules NSA phone data program is likely unconstitutional
A U.S. judge says the government\'s secret collection of telephone records from millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional.Chemical weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
The head of a watchdog group that is trying to rid the world of chemical weapons has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize ...Antarctica sees coldest weather ever recorded on Earth
Temperatures in Antarctica hit a record low of minus 93 degrees Celsius in August 2010, according to scientists.