An ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos has been launched by Russian scientists. Spacecraft was to visit Martian moon of Phobos and bring back soil sample but looks like joining list of failed red planet missions. Russia’s probe to the Mars moon Phobos has gone missing soon after takeoff, failing to fire the rockets that would have boosted it out... 

University of Portsmouth scientists have suggested that an enormous bird, called Samrukia Nessovi after the mythical Kazakh Phoenix, actually existed at the time of the dinosaurs. The ostrich-like prehistoric creature which lived alongside dinosaurs around 83 million years ago, could have stood about 10 feet tall according to recent research publish in Discovery News reports. Researchers suggest in... 

The Russians were less likely to register marriages with foreigners. However, experts still managed to calculate who among the inhabitants of Earth like most Russians. It turned out that the palm went to residents of neighboring Ukraine. At least , evidenced by the RF Ministry of Justice data presented in the State Duma on Monday at a roundtable on international marriages. According to State Duma... 

Riots and street battles killed at least 156 people in China’s western Xinjiang province, state media said Tuesday, and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the region in decades. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China’s Han majority...