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- Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night
- Illinois jurors begin fifth day of deliberations in Blagojevich corruption trial
- Emergency spacewalks planned to fix International Space Station
- FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines
- Suicide bomber kills five Afghan children
| Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Forecasters predict that northern lights could be visible to the naked eye late tonight and early tomorrow morning across Canada, northern parts of the U.S., and possibly the United Kingdom. Solar storms caused a large ejection of plasma from the Sun's surface on Sunday, and the plasma is heading directly towards Earth. The plasma, a cloud of rapidly moving hydrogen gas atoms and subatomic particles, is expected to reach us late Tuesday. The plasma will interact with the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, which will cause northern lights, or aurora borealis, to be visible much further south than is usual. Northern lights usually appear as green or red rivers of lights across the sky. More... |
| Illinois jurors begin fifth day of deliberations in Blagojevich corruption trial Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial began their fifth day of deliberations Tuesday morning, having sent no notes to the judge at all yesterday. Notes they sent out last week, however, suggest that the discussions could take much longer. More... |
| Emergency spacewalks planned to fix International Space Station Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 NASA is scrambling to solidify plans to fix the broken down cooling systems on the International Space Station during two spacewalks, currently planned for Friday and Monday. The systems broke down late Saturday July 31, triggering alarms that woke the six astronauts (three Russian and three American) currently onboard the station. NASA's flight controller said the astronauts are not in any danger, but that science experiments are on hold until the problem can be fixed. The first spacewalk is set to begin Friday at 6:55 a.m. EDT, NASA officials said. The two planned spacewalks will be conducted by astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They will replace an ammonia pump module, which shut down Saturday. The pump's failure prompted the astronauts to shut down several other systems as well. The spare pump had been delivered to the station in July 2006, during STS-121. More... |
| FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), host of Wikinews and its sister projects, to take down its image of the FBI seal from its websites. However, the WMF declined, saying that FBI lawyers had misinterpreted the relevant federal law. In a letter dated July 22, 2010, David C. Larson, Deputy General Counsel of the FBI demanded that the WMF remove the seal from its websites within fourteen days, claiming that "it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations of these restrictions by Wikipedia users." More... |
| Suicide bomber kills five Afghan children Posted:
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Five children were killed by a suicide car bomb in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Monday. More... |
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