Militants armed with rockets and grenades attacked a local police station before dawn on Wednesday, killing two officers and wounding four others, police said.The assault came in Darbaan Kalan, 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of Dera Ismail Khan, killing two policemen including an Assistant…

Three astronauts on Tuesday landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.American Mike Fossum, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russia's Sergei Volkov touched down outside the…

A 110-carat yellow jewel called the Sun Drop Diamond, thought the biggest of its kind in the world, sold for a record 10 million Swiss francs ($10.9 million) at auction in Geneva, Sotheby's announced Tuesday."Ten million francs (8.06 million euros). Sold!", Sotheby's David Bennett…

Excited," "nervous," "terrified" - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.The 30 classroom professionals donned blue "astronaut" jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above California, in…

The UN atomic watchdog's board was expected Friday to approve a resolution of "deep and increasing concern" about Iran's nuclear activities in light of a damning new report from the Vienna-based body.The resolution, tabled at the International Atomic Energy Agency by the five permanent…

The last of a huge pod of sperm and minke whales washed onto a southern Australian beach and nearby sandbank died despite an extensive operation to set it free, officials said Thursday.The 12-metre sperm whale died late Wednesday as Parks and Wildlife officials attempted…

Two Russians and an American Monday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian rocket from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Geo News reported.The initial stages of the lift-off went smoothly and a textbook launch would be a boost for Russia,…

A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth on Tuesday, delighting astronomers who trained telescopes on the ancient body in hopes of learning more about its composition and origin.With a diameter estimated at 400 meters, or about a quarter of…

A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said.Astronomers around the world aimed their telescopes to catch a glimpse of the…

The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in decades surged above 400 on Wednesday as public anger simmered over the authorities' handling of the crisis.The government said the disaster has now killed 427 people -- an increase of 42 from the figure reported a…