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China has regained the top spot on a list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

Prof Rami Hamdallah, 54, the president of An-Najah National University in the Palestine West Bank city of Nablus since 1998, was appointed to his new role by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, and has been asked to form a new cabinet.

The international TOP 500 Organization formally released the new edition of the TOP 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers during the opening session of the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig of Germany on the afternoon of June 17, Beijing time.

Chief Minister and Minister for Health Katy Gallagher, has presented the inaugural Peter Sharp Scholarship to first year Australian National University medical student Danielle Dries.

If Abbott and his comrades are prepared to reduce Gillard to a "witch" with a "big red box", how do you really think they'll treat the rest of us? Is the sexism which Julia Gillard is facing working as a political tactic? My heart begs no, but reality says yes.

Cancer patients from high-income families have a much higher survival rate than their low-income counterparts, a report showed Tuesday.

Researchers at the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University , Canberra, discovered that a rare tree found in Malaysia and Borneo holds the secret to greener chemical production.

Teach students Korean history at school . JUNE 18, 2013 03:00. . A broadcasting company interviewed teens on the street last month to test their knowledge in history, and the result brought about controversy on the Internet.

The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha city in central China is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second.

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I have known Rami Hamdallah for the past 15 years, and have worked side by side with him on academic, international and regional issues.

Tianhe-2, developed by the government-run National University of Defence Technology, topped the latest list of the fastest 500 supercomputers, by a team of international researchers.

Gurney Elementary School Principal, Rachel Jones will be a speaker this month at an annual symposium in San Diego, Calif.

Researchers from James Cook University in north Queensland and the Australian National University are hoping to prove mature fish can develop to cope with climate change.

Investment in higher education in Pakistan continues to reap dividends. According to the QS World Universities Rankings 2013, seven universities of Pakistan have won its place in the list of top 250 Asian universities and 3 Pakistani universities are now among the Top 200 World universities in agriculture and forestry.

Earlier this evening the Twitter followers of Centre for Independent Studies Executive Director, Greg Lindsay, were sadly informed of the passing of economist Helen Hughes.

New Delhi, June 14 : Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shashi Tharoor on Friday emphasized the need for quality teaching across all levels of education.

Everyone knows that authors - even bestselling authors - are familiar with sting of rejection, many seeing their manuscripts turned down by a dozen publishing houses before getting published.

ISLAMABAD: An In-house faculty development training session with the collaboration of University of North Texas has been started at National University of Modern Languages , Islamabad.

Stones rain down on Peruvian riot police as they try to calm protests by angry university students.