The new space race should rely more heavily on private companies than government resources, moon walker Buzz Aldrin says.
England's Liam Plunkett takes a brilliant diving catch to dismiss Pakistan's Sarfraz Ahmed in the fourth one-day international at Headingley.
A massive explosion rocked a SpaceX launch pad Thursday during a routine rocket test for a planned weekend launch. There were no injuries, but the rocket and the satellite onboard were destroyed, SpaceX said in a statement. The company was conducting a test firing of its unmanned Falcon rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Wata tawagar jami’an yan sandan jihar legas sun damke babban faston cocin Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry, Chukwuma Nkwocha. Rahotanni sun nuna cewa wani fasto yana ajiye yara yan mata kimanin 30 ya musu fyade a cikin cocinsa. Yan matan na a shekaru 10 zuwa 15. Ya yaudari yaran ne saboda basuda wurin zama da […]
Читать дальше...(AP) — Two girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to please horror character Slender Man want jurors from outside their home county to decide their trials. Morgan Geyser's attorneys filed a motion this week seek jurors from outside Waukesha County because of heavy media coverage.
(AP) — A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss money laundering charges against Hattiesburg pastor Kenneth Fairley Sr. Lawyer Sanford Knott argued the money laundering charges were flawed because there were no separate acts other than the check deposits of $98,000 alleged in separate counts accusing Fairley of theft of government property.
James Halsell Jr. was indicted on two counts each of reckless murder and assault, according to Tuscaloosa County prosecutor Jonathan Cross.
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India's richest man Mukesh Ambani just launched the world's largest 4G LTE network through his telecom company, Reliance Jio.
Reliance Jio will offer free voice calls, text messaging, and roaming when it makes its new network available on September 5 to 90% of India's population, or 1.126 billion people, with super fast LTE data that peaks at 135 Mbps.
How much per gigabyte? 50 Rupees, or $0.75, per gigabyte of data.
That's insanely cheap even by India's telecom standards... Читать дальше...
(AP) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blasted a prison policy that denies former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and others an expensive hepatitis C drug until they have advanced liver damage. U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani says the policy amounts to "conscious disregard" for prisoners' health, but notes that courts across the country are struggling to decide who should get the drugs.
(AP) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blasted a prison policy that denies former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and others an expensive hepatitis C drug until they have advanced liver damage. U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani says the policy amounts to "conscious disregard" for prisoners' health, but notes that courts across the country are struggling to decide who should get the drugs.
ZURICH (AP) — Soccer great Franz Beckenbauer is a criminal suspect in a World Cup fraud case.
FILE - In this July 14, 2013, file photo, soccer legend Franz Beckenbaueris shown prior to a friendly soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona in the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, southern Germany. Swiss federal prosecutors say…
FILE - In this June 29, 2006 file photo Franz Beckenbauer, then President of the German Organization Committee of the soccer World Cup briefs the media during a news conference at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Swiss federal prosecutors say…
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G20 states must work harder to ensure a swifter transition to a low carbon economy, NGOs urged Wednesday, notably deploring continued EU finance for fossil fuel-powered projects.
Middle-school instructional chief Tom Saunders says it's meant to ensure a safe, nurturing learning environment. Maile (MY'-lee) Beers-Arthur says she's pleased her twin daughters are learning about peaceful protests and free-speech rights after being lectured about the dress code.
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Matthew McConaughey’s brand new film Sea of Trees made less than $3000 in the first few days of its release.
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A woman in New York says she hasn't stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city.
Maribel Martinez tells New York's Daily News she was shocked when JetBlue staffers presented her with another little boy on Aug. 17 at Kennedy Airport.
Her lawyer says that child was supposed to be in Boston. Instead, Martinez's son, Andy, was sent there.
Both unaccompanied children had boarded in the Dominican Republic. Читать дальше...
Irregularities in the restitution process have been public knowledge for years, but they are now at the heart of political struggle for control of Warsaw which is run by the Civic Platform party, in opposition to the national government. Since 1990, most Warsaw mayors have been linked to parties that gave rise to the Civic Platform, except between 2002 and 2005 when Law and Justice ran the city and also made some restitution decisions.
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On Wednesday, the NFL cleared James Harrison, Clay Matthews, and Julius Peppers of the performance-enhancing drug (PED) allegations stemming from the Al-Jazeera documentary that also claimed Peyton Manning used PEDs.
Afterward, Harrison's teammates on the Pittsburgh Steelers took to celebrating the news that their star linebacker wouldn't be suspended.
Running back DeAngelo Williams posted a video to Twitter, celebrating Harrison's "exoneration" and relayed his incredulity... Читать дальше...
The Hawks have R250 000 worth of platinum during a raid on a Rustenburg house owned by a police constable.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Britney Spears revealed in the October issue of Marie Claire U.K. that sons Preston and Jayden have helped ease her struggle with anxiety.