The Malaysia government has decided to halt the recruitment of new foreign workers into the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The astronomers recently caught a real-life "Death Star" in the act of destroying a planet which is continuing to disintegrate nearby orbiting objects, reports Space.com.

Total solar eclipse sweeps across vast Indonesian archipelago, marked by ecstatic sky gazers cheering the spectacle, devout Muslims kneeling in prayer and tribespeople performing rituals.

For the last one month, people of Barisal city have been facing an acute water crisis. The ongoing scarcity of the

At least 58 people are injured in Thailand's capital Bangkok after the engine on a water taxi exploded as it pulled into a pier.

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad yesterday joined hands with long-standing foes, including the party of the jailed Anwar

Wildlife monitoring network Traffic finds hundreds of protected animals for sale on Facebook groups in Malaysia, including sun bears, gibbons, and binturongs, also known as bearcats.

Despite numerous complaints filed by the candidates and their political parties about irregularities and breach of electoral codes ahead of the forthcoming UP polls, the Election Commission (EC) is turning a blind eye to these pressing issues, causing a recurrence of violence in rural areas, alleged Shushashoner

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of western Indonesia, USGS reports, no immediate reports of damage.

US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have touched down on Earth after almost a year in space.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice seeking a halt to collecting information about landlords and tenants by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

The formal test programme has begun on the technologies required to detect gravitational waves in space.

NASA, the US space agency, together with Lima's International Potato Center (CIP) is conducting the pioneering experiment to determine whether potatoes are fit to grow on Mars.

If you have ever struggled getting hold of a spare part for an appliance, consider the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), where deliveries are not exactly regular, and postage is rather extortionate.

India and Bangladesh opens immigration offices on their respective sides of the Fulbari-Banglabandha border point, the route for bilateral trade between Nepal and Bangladesh.

A new photograph of galaxy NGC 4889 looks peaceful from such a great distance, but it’s actually home to one of the biggest black holes that astronomers have ever identified, reports Yahoo Tech.

Myanmar's powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy are slated to extend their terms for another five years, a local newspaper said yesterday. The

A Japanese MP who sparked a national debate about paternity leave has quit after admitting to having an affair as his wife was due to give birth.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has today released a new 360-degree video which gives a virtual tour of the Martian surface, reports the Tech Crunch. The video has been created by stitching together the images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on December 18th, 2015.

A male leopard which entered a school in the Indian city of Bangalore injured six people trying to capture it.