Three passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...

Virus: A hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship has raised global concern, with at least eight countries involved in trac...

Today’s quote of the day by Jean Piaget shows that intelligence is not only about knowing answers. It is about thinking when you feel confu...

Building on public discontent over the takeover of Credit Suisse Group AG by UBS Group AG, the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and left-win...

The Kannada film ‘Kantara’ will be presented before the United Nations in Geneva.

As vaccine schemes stutter across the continent, more and more experts are pleading for states to follow the example of New Zealand and oth...

The giant exoplanet WASP-76b has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius - high enough to vaporise metals.

This Earth-sized world, named Ross 128 b, is likely to have a surface temperature that may also be close to that of the Earth.

His decision to attend the meeting was seen as an attempt to make a strong case for globalisation which benefitted China to emerge as the s...

The previous world record stood at 1.779 seconds and was set last year by a team at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

This time around the LHC is kicking atoms and taking names as it hunts for answers to some of the most pressing questions in physics.

Typical symptoms of MS include physical & mental fatigue as well as faintness, depression and paresthesia such as needles & numbness.

Kidneys have an internal clock which plays an important role in maintaining balance within the body

The cloud has been dubbed as "The Behemoth" bleeding. The hydrogen is evaporating from the planet because of extreme radiation from the sta...

India and Switzerland will soon sign a pact to give further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare.

The data handover is illegal, said Alec Reymond, a former president of the Geneva Bar Association, who is representing two Credit Suisse st...

President Pratibha Patil today left on a visit to Switzerland and Austria during which she will hold bilateral talks with the leadership th...