Balanced News Blog

A powerful explosion early Thursday ruptured part of a state-owned gas pipeline in a restive southwestern Pakistan province, briefly disrupting supplies but injuring no one, police said.

The Army plans to send thousands of ceramic body armor plates to Iraq this year to better protect soldiers while the Marine Corps already is delivering such gear, military officers said.

Israel will not do business with Pat Robertson after the evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon‘s massive stroke was divine punishment for the Gaza withdrawal, a tourism official said Wednesday.

Britain‘s biggest windfarm, inaugurated on the site of an old coal mine, will help Scotland become a “powerhouse” of renewable energy, it has been claimed.

The Australian Government will begin discussions with China next week on an agreement that will allow uranium to be exported for China’s nuclear power industry.

Taiwan, home to the world’s first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island’s stem cell research, a professor said on Thursday.

Two Greenpeace activists have boarded a French warship lined with asbestos off the coast of Egypt, to protest against its journey to India.

At least 50 people were killed in crowding during the stoning ritual at the hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, witnesses said. The Arab television news station Al-Arabiya reported dozens of pilgrims died.