SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) said 173 hotspots were detected in Sumatra, Indonesia, on Wednesday and 187 detected on Tuesday.The agency said it expects the wind and weather to remain constant, and so the haze will persist.It also ...

SINGAPORE: Researchers from the National University of Singapore's bioengineering and orthopaedic surgery departments have developed a highly realistic three-dimensional (3D) tumour model.The model replicates conditions in the body and can be used to...

SINGAPORE: Volunteerism is not only about packing hampers, lunch bags or cleaning homes -- the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) is encouraging companies to take the lead in skill-based volunteerism by offering their professional expertise an...

Italy booked their place in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup here Wednesday with a thrilling come-from-behind 4-3 win over Japan that also sent Brazil into the last four.

The San Antonio Spurs must erase the memory of their epic game-six collapse if they are to become the first team since 1978 to win a game seven of the NBA Finals on the road.

After months of tough negotiations, the EU executive, the member states and the parliament thrashed out a possible compromise on a trillion-euro budget Wednesday to cover European Union spending over the next seven years.

Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying the devices business from Nokia but failed to seal a deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom Thursday condemned a Dutch company's decision to delete million of files belonging to users of his defunct website, calling it "the largest data massacre in the history of the Internet".

The CIA selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a government report.

A dip in the icy waters of a Northern Irish lake proved the ideal tonic before a day of tough talks with G8 leaders on tax evasion and the Syria crisis, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday.

Residents of an upscale Ottawa neighbourhood have been spiriting unwanted squirrels across a river into Quebec province and dumping them there, a local newspaper said Tuesday.

A rail company is offering one lucky couple the chance to get married aboard one of Tokyo's busiest commuter trains as it encircles the Japanese capital, it said Tuesday.

British finance minister George Osborne on Wednesday ordered a review into whether state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland should be split into 'good' and 'bad' banks, with the latter housing written-off assets, as part of the government's plan to return RBS to the private sector.

Talks Wednesday between Greece's prime minister and his coalition partners failed to resolve the political deadlock caused by the government's shutdown of state broadcaster ERT, and are set to continue.

Despite an unexpected build in US oil inventories, US oil prices Wednesday declined only modestly.