If Sky City in Changsha is completed by 2014, it will be the world's tallest skyscraper, surpassing by eight metres Burj Khalifa in Dubai. China has its eyes on building plenty more. Soon, more...
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An outbreak of green algae, or hutai as the Chinese call it, has invaded the seawaters off eastern Shandong. It looks harmless and lots of fun, as beachgoers are pictured frolicking in the green...
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With the vote to select the next chief executive less than three weeks away, over 70 per cent of the 1,200 members of the election committee have stated their preference by nominating a candidate...
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It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world's population to reach one billion, but only another 200 years to multiply that figure by seven.
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Some of the big news stories in the past year, and the words devoted to them daily in the Post.
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The cities are ranked by taking the number of completed high-rise buildings – in the Emporis database - and assigning points to each building based on its number of floors. The figures in brackets...
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The United States officially marked the end of almost nine years of bloody military engagement in Iraq on Thursday. Over 4,800 coalition soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives...
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Accelerates two beams of protons around a 27km ring and smashes them together at 99.99% the speed of light. Its 9,300 magnets guide the particles through a vacuum, recreating conditions moments...
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Hong Kong tonight will be one of the places to witness the last total lunar eclipse until 2014. But instead of disappearing, the moon will take on a copper-red tint.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (...
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Boring machines cut through the earth leaving a hole from which workers can assemble a tunnel
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