February 20, 2012:It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of [...]

Azerbaijan plans to build what is expected to be the tallest skyscraper in the world. The proposed site is a man-made island in the Caspian Sea. The 1050-meter tall ‘Azerbaijan Tower’ will be 220 meters taller than the world’s current tallest building, Burj Khalifa, located in the United Arab Emirates. The construction of the Azerbaijan [...]

February 13, 2012: Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, stated that an Arab League proposal for a joint peacekeeping mission in Syria with the United Nations would be studied, while China refused to give a clear position on the proposal. Lavrov said Monday that a cease-fire would have to be declared before any such mission could [...]

Moscow, January 5 2012: A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms. Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica and scientists want to study its eco-system which has been isolated [...]