Wednesday, August 22, 2012

After 352-million-mile trip, cheers for 23 feet on Mars

After 352-million-mile trip, cheers for 23 feet on Mars

After 352-million-mile trip, cheers for 23 feet on Mars

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:06 PM PDT

It was a modest test drive: moving forward 15 feet, turning in place 120 degrees, then backing up about 8 feet. The entire trip took about 16 minutes, with most of the time spent stopped as cameras to...

Ex-Penn State president disputes sex abuse report

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:44 PM PDT

Ousted Penn State president Graham Spanier and his lawyers attacked a university-backed report on the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal on Wednesday, calling it a "blundering and indefensible indictmen...

For Prince Harry, Vegas exploits didn't stay there

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:06 PM PDT

A year that has featured a triumphant Olympic Games and Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee struck an unwelcome bump on Wednesday for the royal family with the publication of photographs showing the ...

Mars rover Curiosity aces first test drive

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:00 PM PDT

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since it reached the Red Planet, to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life. The $2.5-billion, two-year ...

Navy SEAL reportedly set to tell all about Osama raid in new book

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:48 PM PDT

The U.S. government was surprised by the news that a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan has written a book about the operation in which the Al Qaeda leade...

India-US relationship retreated under Obama: Romney aide

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:38 PM PDT

The strategic partnership between India and the United States has "retreated" under the current Obama Administration as compared to the momentum built during the Bush-era, Republican White House hopef...

US seizes websites linked to pirated phone apps

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:37 PM PDT

US authorities have seized three website domain names involved in distribution of pirated Android phone apps, in the first such action involving mobile app marketplaces.

Barack Obama Facebook threat gets US student probation

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:13 PM PDT

A Florida man has been sentenced to three years' probation for posting threats against President Barack Obama on Facebook.

Is anybody really upset about naked Prince Harry photos?

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:47 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry has been caught on camera doing something embarrassing - again. Celebrity gossip website TMZ on Tuesday posted photos of the 27-year-old royal cavorting nude with an unidentifie...

Elisabeth Murdoch set for biggest speech of career

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT

Elisabeth Murdoch steps out of the shadows this week to deliver the biggest speech of her career, a chance to show her credentials to take over father Rupert's empire as her brothers' claims to lead i...

Higher wage demands spread to other South African mines

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 08:30 AM PDT

South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday told striking miners the nation's leaders are mourning with them but he refused their request that he visit the dusty site where police killed 34 strike...

Indian at Warren Buffet's charitable trust guilty of theft

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:55 AM PDT

An Indian man who worked for billionaire Warren Buffet's charitable foundation has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from the organization and could face up to 20 years in prison.

Has naked Prince Harry undone his recent good work?

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:21 AM PDT

Pictures of a naked Prince Harry were published on a U.S. website on Wednesday, showing the grandson of Britain's Queen Elizabeth cavorting with a nude young woman in a hotel room in Las Vegas.

Sonia Gandhi beats Michelle Obama on list of most powerful women

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:18 AM PDT

Forbes magazine ranked German Chancellor Angela Merkel the most powerful woman in the world for the second year in a row in the annual list dominated by politicians, businesswomen and media figures.

Man who fought euthanasia law dies

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Tony Nicklinson found living with locked-in syndrome so difficult that he petitioned Britain's High Court to overturn his country's ban on euthanasia. On Wednesday, his lawyers announced he died at ho...

Fareed Zakaria quits Yale board

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:35 AM PDT

Hit by plagiarism charges, celebrated Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria has resigned from the board of Ivy League Yale University, citing the need to focus "on the core of my work".

Sleepy woman flies Pakistan to France, and back again

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:21 AM PDT

A Frenchwoman endured an 18-hour journey from the Pakistani city of Lahore to Paris and back again after sleeping through her plane's stop in the French capital, officials said on Wednesday.

Mars rover Curiosity prepares for test drive

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:59 AM PDT

Scientists were preparing to send Curiosity on its first test drive over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor wouldn't jeopardise its mission of determining whether life co...

Syrian army batters parts of Damascus, 40 killed

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:04 AM PDT

Syrian army shells crashed into southern Damascus on Wednesday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault to shore up President Bashar al-Assad's grip on the capital, opposition a...

US website airs naked photos of UK's Prince Harry

Posted: 22 Aug 2012 04:25 AM PDT

Pictures of a naked Prince Harry, grandson of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, cavorting with a nude young woman in a hotel room in Las Vegas were published on a US website on Wednesday, in a potential emba...
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