Canberra: The Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled on Monday plans to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic. Mining billionaire told media that he had commissioned a state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to construct Titanic II with the same dimensions as its predecessor.c The construction will start at the end of next year, [...]

Tokyo: A Japanese deep-sea drilling probe has set a new world record for depth, reaching 7,740 meters (25,400 feet) below the sea surface, the research institute that launched it says. The Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was digging the seabed off Japan’s northern coast to take fault samples and [...]