With the first ever bunch of zinnia flowers blooming in space, the attempt of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), who have been there for nearly two years, the attempts to cultivate edible plants in microgravity became somewhat successful.   "First ever flower grown in...

Novak Djokovic spoke in depth for the first time about being offered $200,000 (£140,000) to fix a match 10 years ago on a day of extended drama and fevered speculation.   However Roger Federer, the game’s most venerated player, called the latest allegations, to be aired on the BBC on Tuesday...

French President Francois Hollande has unveiled measures to combat unemployment, saying that the economy entered "a state of emergency." These measures include establishment of retraining programs for unemployed and providing additional subsidies to small businesses. "We have to make sure that...

Bahrun Naim, identified by police as the mastermind behind the deadly attack on Jakarta claimed by Islamic State, was quietly running an Internet cafe in the small Indonesian city of Solo seven years ago.   Naim is believed by police to have been pulling the strings from Raqqa, the radical...

According to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the world Economic Forum, a catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016.   Global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns which became evident at the...

New explosions occurred at the heart of Jakarta, according to Kompas TV. According to preliminary data, the bombings thundered close to a spot of shooting took place just a few hours earlier. The police have already arrived at the scene. At least 17 people were killed as a result of a series of...

With the country of Liberia – the last of the African regions to be still affected be the Ebola virus expecting the all-clear, the two-year Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in west Africa is due to be declared officially over on Thursday.   Since it emerged in southern...

During the meeting scheduled for today, the European Commission will consider a very delicate question: Is the European Union ready to apply the mechanisms of pressure on Warsaw after Poland had taken the controversial amendments to the law on the Constitutional Court and media. One of the...

The US military is preparing testing of new nuclear weapons, equipped with modern control systems and programming. The main objective of the tests is to create charges at the power that would be more precise to hit a given target, including underground, thus causing less damage to the surrounding....