29 miners believed dead after second New Zealand blast |
- 29 miners believed dead after second New Zealand blast
- Russia to spend $2 billion to clean outer space
- Indian-origin teacher in UK jailed for sex with students
- 29 workers feared dead after second blast at New Zealand mine
- 'Spider-Man’ starts to emerge from web of secrecy
- 11 arrested in Belgium in anti-terror sweep
- Daily pill greatly reduces AIDS risk: Report
- North and South Korea exchange fire, killing two
- Survivors fill hospitals as Cambodia toll rises
- Prince William, Kate pick a date at Westminster Abbey
- Robot breakdown delays rescue of trapped New Zealand miners
- Qantas resumes some A380 flights after engine blast
- North Korea fires artillery onto island: South Korea
- Wikileaks says next leak 7 times bigger
| 29 miners believed dead after second New Zealand blast Posted: All 29 men missing in a New Zealand mine were presumed dead today after a "horrific" second blast tore through the colliery, plunging the country into mourning. Police said there was now no chance of finding anyone alive, confirming the country's worst mining accident in nearly a century and prompting anguished scenes as distraught relatives wept, shouted and collapsed to the floor.
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| Russia to spend $2 billion to clean outer space Posted: Russia will build a special orbital pod worth $2 billion that would sweep up satellite debris from space around the Earth. Every year, the space near Earth becomes more and more densely populated with used satellites and their debris, and the new system - estimated to cost about 60 billion rubles ($1.9 billion) - would help clean it up, Xinhua reported citing Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation, also known as Energia.
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| Indian-origin teacher in UK jailed for sex with students Posted: A 37-year-old Indian-origin school teacher in Britain has been jailed for 16 months on charges of having sex with two male students. Hina Patel, who was working as a classroom assistant and swimming teacher, has been found guilty in the Liverpool Crown Court of having had sex with two 15-year-old male students, The Sun reported.
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| 29 workers feared dead after second blast at New Zealand mine Posted: All 29 workers missing underground in a New Zealand coal mine are believed to have died after a second explosion, police said. Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the second explosion occurred mid-afternoon Wednesday, almost exactly five days after the first blast in the Pike River mine.
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| 'Spider-Man’ starts to emerge from web of secrecy Posted: Nine years in the making, the moment came on Saturday to try running through the first act of the new musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" without stopping. As the band struck up an ominous tune that wailed like an ambulance siren, the enormous stage curtain rose to reveal a young woman dangling under a mock-up of the Brooklyn Bridge. Above her appeared a masked man, clad in skin-hugging tights, red and blue and all-American.
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| 11 arrested in Belgium in anti-terror sweep Posted: Those targeted in the sweeps were suspected of planning a possible attack in Belgium or of involvement in recruiting for an alleged Chechen terror organization, Belgian officials said. Seven were detained in Belgium's port city of Antwerp, three in Amsterdam and one near the German border city of Aachen.
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| Daily pill greatly reduces AIDS risk: Report Posted: In a development that could change the battle against AIDS, researchers have found that taking a daily antiretroviral pill greatly lowers the chances of getting infected with the fatal virus.
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| North and South Korea exchange fire, killing two Posted: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were wounded and three civilians were injured, said Kiyheon Kwon, an official at the Defense Ministry.
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| Survivors fill hospitals as Cambodia toll rises Posted: Injured survivors lay on the floors of hospitals here Tuesday and the dead were loaded into coffins after one of the worst stampedes in recent years killed at least 378 people at a holiday celebration the previous night.
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| Prince William, Kate pick a date at Westminster Abbey Posted: The date and location have been set: the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is to take place on Friday, April 29th at Westminster Abbey.
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| Robot breakdown delays rescue of trapped New Zealand miners Posted: The bid to rescue 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped underground by a massive gas explosion for nearly five days hit new problems on Tuesday as a mechanical robot broke down inside a tunnel and hard rock layers slowed progress on gas testing.
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| Qantas resumes some A380 flights after engine blast Posted: Qantas today announced the partial resumption of A380 flights but said most of its superjumbos would remain grounded and the trans-Pacific Los Angeles route was off-limits after a mid-air engine blast.
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| North Korea fires artillery onto island: South Korea Posted: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries' disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said.
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| Wikileaks says next leak 7 times bigger Posted: WikiLeaks' next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, already the biggest leak in US intelligence history, the website said on Monday. The organization made the announcement in a brief message posted to its followers on Twitter, giving no information about the content of the coming release or its exact timing — although it did refer to "the coming months" in a separate tweet sent about an hour later.
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