Top diplomats resume dialogue

India's top diplomat was in Pakistan on Tuesday for the first meeting with his counterpart since New Delhi called off talks seven months ago.

Trial studies protein linked to Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's researchers at Harvard for the first time are scanning the brains of healthy patients for the presence of a hallmark protein called tau, which forms toxic tangles of nerve fibers associated with the fatal disease.

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Rift may last till Obama term ends

A top US official warned on Tuesday that the current tensions between traditional allies US and Israel could last until the end of the Obama administration in 2016.

Origins of 2 AIDS strains traced to gorillas

Two of four strains of the virus that can cause AIDS come from gorillas in southwestern Cameroon, an international team of scientists reported in studies published on Monday in the United States.

World's first all-electric satellites go into orbit

A Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday to put the world's first all - electric communications satellites into orbit.

Study says penguins prospered after ice age

They prefer freezing conditions, but Antarctica's emperor penguins may have struggled with the overwhelming cold of the last ice age, a study said on Monday.

Peking Opera wows Detroit crowd

The spirit of Mei Lanfang, the first Peking Opera master to bring the art to the United States early in the last century, was revived on Sunday as a Chinese troupe performed for more than 1,000 spectators in Detroit, Michigan, a center of automobile manufacturing.

Casinos hope to cash in on rising wealth

More than three years after opening the luxurious nightclub Pangaea in Singapore's glitzy Marina Bay Sands, owner Michael Van Cleef Ault is now betting that Manila's casinos will be able to draw rich gamblers and partygoers through his doors.

Deadly bacteria released from high-security lab

US officials in Louisiana are investigating how a dangerous and often deadly bacteria got out of a high-security laboratory at a research facility, USA Today reported on Sunday.

Around the world

Bangladesh security officials said they have arrested a leading suspect in the hacking death of a US blogger who wrote against religious extremism. The elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion force said the suspect, Farabi Shafiur Rahman, was arrested on Monday, four days after at least two attackers killed Avijit Roy with meat cleavers on a crowded sidewalk in Dhaka.

Pyongyang fires missiles as ROK-US war games kick off

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters on Monday when the Republic of Korea and the United States began their joint annual war games.