An airstrike against an administrative building in a compound including Muammer Gaddafi's residence in Tripoli destroyed the Libyan leader's ‘command and control capability,’ a coalition official told the media on Sunday.

Just at the click of a mouse button, you can now get all of earth’s data, thanks to researchers who have developed a software which reveals all historical and geological information about our planet.

A Nasa spacecraft began orbiting Mercury on Thursday, becoming the first to fly around the solar system’s innermost planet, the space agency said.

US President Barack Obama left behind a week wracked by disaster and war late Friday, launching a five-day tour of Latin America, a region showing fresh potential after its own years of turmoil.

The $787 billion economic stimulus programme of the Obama Administration under the Recovery Act, 2009 has raised 3.6 million jobs and contributed 3.2 per cent to the GDP in fourth quarter, the White House has said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview aired on Thursday the Japanese nuclear crisis has made him reconsider his nation's plans for civilian atomic energy.

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest Planet, Mercury.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said that she would not serve a second term as the top American diplomat if President Barack Obama was to be re-elected in 2012 Presidential elections.

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire about 400,000 years ago, archaeologists have claimed, adding fuel to the debate whether our distant cousins were dimwitted brutes or a bit smart.

The massive earthquake that struck Japan last Friday was so powerful that it accelerated the Earth’s rotation speed, shortening the length of the day by 1.8 microseconds, a new analysis by Nasa has claimed.