The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Tanzania, is planning to survey the country’s borders. The move follows information that there were relocations of beacons on the borders with some neighbouring countries. The ministry’s...

An anthropology professor from South Africa has used Google Earth (satellite imagery) to find a new human ancestor. He found two partial skeletons, dating between 1.78 and 1.95 million years ago, that belong to the species now known as Australopithecus sediba.

A meeting on rising prices in India, chaired by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, recommended the use of technology and GPS to track vehicles carrying essential commodities for better management of the public distribution system (PDS). The meeting at the Prime Minister's....