Milan, ItalyMOLMount Everest is losing its snow and ice at an alarming rate, researchers have found.A major new study of Everest and the national park that surrounds it concluded the area has been warming since the early 1960s - with many small glaciers having already disappeared. The researchers ...

GENEVA - AFP - The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency said Thursday.In a report on the situation in 2012, the World ...

NEW YORK: A US designer has created ice cubes that will never water down or change the taste of a drink - because they are made from stainless steel. Dave Laituri, from Wayland in Massachusetts, came up with the idea for people who prefer their drinks on the rocks but don’t want extra water ...

FRANKFURT (DS): A German ice cream parlour has put up its prices in an attempt to deter customers. Owner Niko Robert has been inundated with trade since he re-opened Hokey Pokey in March after the winter break, but the influx of customers has caused queues of up to 50 metres outside the shop, ...

LONDON   - Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird handed over a case of beer to his US counterpart John Kerry after losing a bet on a women’s ice hockey championships. “While the Canadian women played tremendously well and almost pulled it off, they didn’t quite make it ...

ISLAMABAD - With the advent of summer season, the demand for ice-lollies and ice cream has promptly gain strength in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.Street vendors can be seen selling ice lollies, in front of schools and colleges to children and adults alike, clamoring to get their ...

LONDON  - Clint Dempsey's equaliser in the final minute of stoppage-time denied Premier League leaders Manchester United victory as Tottenham Hotspur forced a 1-1 draw at a snowy White Hart Lane on Sunday.The result meant United's advantage at the top of the table over second-placed reigning ...

THESE beautiful ice sculptures create a real winter wonderland as they are painstakingly created from huge mounds of compressed snow for China’s annual ice festival. After thousands of man hours in the making, the stunning sculptures are finally ready for the throngs of tourists at the annual ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the Sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system’s inner planets.“The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury’s polar regions, ...

VEHARI – Local ice factories have been cashing in on the heat wave, depriving the masses of cold water. Like other plain areas of the country, a scorching heat wave struck Vehari where temperature hit at 45 degree Celsius.The prolonged loadshedding has been adding to public woes. In such a ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan and India on Tuesday ‘reaffirmed’ the resolve for seeking an amicable resolution of the Siachen dispute with the continuity of dialogue process, as the two-day defence secretaries-level talks ended without any breakthrough.The two sides will now engage in ...

SANTIAGO - Police on Monday were investigating a criminal gang that allegedly stole blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier in southern Chile.Agents with Chile’s National Forest Service (CONAF) filed a legal complaint claiming that ice was being stolen from the glacier, located in the ...

International artists put the finishing touches to a series of ice sculptures to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Disneyland Paris. Among the sculptures at the Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival in Bruges, Belgium, are Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Aladdin, Buzz Lightyear and Simba. To stop the ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has seriously dented the credibility of one of the noblest institutions of his countrys history and culture. A large number of Afghans today would hope that the institution of the loya jirga (grand tribal assembly) survives Karzais presidency. There are very few ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) A massive crack is growing wider in the Antarctic ice sheet and could break apart in the coming months, forming an iceberg the size of New York City, NASA scientists warned on Thursday. The crack in western Antarcticas Pine Island Glacier stretches for at least 18 miles (30 ...

DUBAI For the seventh year in a row, Emirates Airlines 'ice inflight entertainment system has been awarded the 'Worlds Best Airline Inflight Entertainment award at the 2011 Skytrax World Airline Awards, says a press release. The awards were based on voting by over 18.8 million airline passengers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ruler On Ice ploughed his way through the mud to score an upset win in the 143rd running of the $1 million Belmont Stakes Saturday after the Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom almost threw his rider at the start. Perfectly ridden by Peru-born jockey Jose Valdivia, Ruler On ...

Hameed Gul is a retired Pakistani Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War. The timing was incredible By mid May 2011, the US Army was set to be thrown out of Pakistan by the Pakistani ...

GOOGLES homepage doodles are getting a tad random, but delicious. The image honours the 119th birthday of the first documented ice cream sundae. The pastel-coloured image replaces the two Os in the Google logo with a cherry-topped ice cream sundae. The history of the ice cream sundae has actually ...

PALAEONTOLOGISTS have unearthed what they say is an ice age graveyard where dozens of huge animals including mammoths, mastodons and a giant ground sloth died up to 150,000 years ago. The fossilised remains, found from the bottom of a drained reservoir near a popular mountain ski resort in Colorado ...

THE Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been shining the way for ships entering the Cuyahoga River since 1911. But now, it has become a tourist attraction of its own, thanks to mother nature covering it in ice. Since 1830, there have been three lighthouses. The first was replaced in 1870 ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US radar that launched into space has detected craters filled with ice on the moons north pole, NASA scientists said Monday. The US space agencys Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from 1.6 to 15 kilometers, each full of water ice. Although the ...

PARIS (AFP) - The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. Published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, the same study shows that the smaller but less ...

SATELLITE observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by ...

INTERNATIONAL space missions have found evidence of ice on Mars - a sign the planet could sustain extraterrestrial life. Nasa said its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted ice at five new Martian craters, likely kicked up by meteor impacts. 'This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from perhaps ...

BLAME your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during a football game. Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggest that fat from certain foods we eat makes its way to the brain. Once there, ...

ISLAMABAD - The two major components of erstwhile religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, JUI-F and JI, which have been at loggerhead for the last one and half years have started contacts to revive MMA or form a fresh larger coalition of religious parties in the country. The sources in both ...

LAHORE - Tapal Tea Private Limited, scores another first by launching Tapal Ice Tea Powder. This was revealed at a forum of Tapals distributors and sales force at a local hotel. This signifies local talents and abilities as this is a unique product manufactured locally. It is good news for health ...

GENEVA (AFP) - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising the sea level and fuelling climate change, a scientific survey revealed Wednesday. Warming in the Antarctic was "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic sea ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were left shivering in the dark after a massive ice and snow storm cut a swath across the United States, knocking down power lines, snarling traffic, grounding flights and forcing schools to close. Freezing rain on the southern end of the storm covered trees and ...