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STS-51-L's Final Resting Place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion soon after launch.

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In the Shadow of The City on a Hill, Challenger and Sputnik
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In 1986, right after the Challenger Disaster, America's leading actor and elderly armchair warrior said, "They waved good-bye and prepared for their journey and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." It was one of the few times that America's collective subconscious was...

A Somali pirate, hooded, arrives at South Regional Headquarters Korea Coast Guard in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The coast guard says that five Somali pirates captured during a raid on a hijacked South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea have been brought to South Korea to stand trial.

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Somali pirates could face South Korea charges
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Seoul: Five suspected Somali pirates captured after a mission to rescue a hijacked ship have been brought to South Korea to face possible criminal charges, officials said on Sunday. The suspects, seized on January 21 during a South Korean navy raid on the Samho Jewelry, arrived in Seoul on a special flight before being sent to the southern port...

A protestor holds the Tunisian flag as he demonstrates in front of the RCD party office after the sign bearing its name was dismantled, in Tunis, Thursday, Jan. 20. 2011. The Constitutional Democratic Rally, RCD, party was founded by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after 23 years in power.

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Tunisia's Ben Ali relative asks for asylum in Canada
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Continue reading the main story Tunisia turmoil 'Speakers' corner' Will returnees re-ignite revolt? Key players now Q&A;: Tunisia crisis The Canadian government says a brother-in-law of the ousted Tunisian president has applied for refugee status....

Demonstrators chant slogans during a demonstration near the United Nations headquarters in New York on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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Pressure builds on Mubarak
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The United States and other leading European nations have urged Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to refrain from violence against unarmed protesters and work to create conditions for free and fair elections. Washington told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday it was not enough simply to "reshuffle the deck" with a shake-up of...

Rescue workers stands beside bodies of casualties after a train crash in Hordorf near Oschersleben, eastern Germany, Sunday morning, Jan 30, 2011. The head-on train crash killed several people and injured more than 30 people. A passenger and a cargo train crashed head-on near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg, and several train cars derailed and overturned, a spokesman for the district's firefighters said.

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German train crash near Magdeburg leaves 10 dead
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Continue reading the main story Related stories German train crashes into truck Germany mourns train crash dead...

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, reacts during a press conference at government buildings, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Cowen declared Monday he won't resign now despite pressure within his own unraveling government, because he's determined to pass an emergency budget and negotiate a massive EU-IMF bailout before he goes.

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Bailout Bill passed ahead of Irish election
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IRELAND'S Upper House of Parliament has passed a key finance Bill needed to secure the country's bailout package, paving the way for embattled Prime Minister Brian Cowen to call elections. The Budget - which hikes taxes and slashes spending as part of the price for the 67.5 billion euro ($91 billion)...

Pakistani rangers check the site of a blast inside a road tunnel in Kohat, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Pakistani police said that a car bomb has exploded in a tunnel in northwest Pakistan, killing a number of people.

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Twin truck bombings kill four, injure 19 in Pakistan
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Peshawar, January 29: At least four people including two women were killed and 19 others wounded in twin truck bombings that targeted a key road tunnel in Pakistan's northwest, officials said Saturday. The attacks took place late Friday night in and outside the tunnel which connects the main city of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to the...

A Sri Lankan flood victim Weerakutti Nesamma carries a pot of drinking water at her submerged compound in Kartivu, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011.

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Hunger and despair in Sri Lanka
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Recent flooding in eastern Sri Lanka destroyed thousands of homes, devastated the rice crop and drowned thousands of livestock. A million people, 40 per cent of them children, are at risk of serious hunger as a result. Some of the worst-affected areas were only just recovering from decades of conflict and the tsunami when the floods hit, and the...

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UN Secretary General Calls For US And Europe To Take Charge
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Posted on: Saturday, 29 January 2011, 08:17 CST On Friday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the U.S. and Europe should take the lead in battling climate change, rather than waiting around for others to take charge. "This climate change campaign should be led,...

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (3rd from left) hosts a Pentagon meeting, April 22, 2010, with a military delegation from the Russian Federation led by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Nikolay Makorov (4th from right). In his opening remarks, Gates offered his condolences for the 38 Russian citizens killed in the recent terrorist bombings of the Moscow subway system.

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Will MacArthurism Ever Be Eliminated?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Feed the hungry, tax the Military!" At the outset of The Great Depression, General Douglass MacArthur, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, observed millions of homeless Americans sleeping on sidewalks and attending "hunger marches." He witnessed food riots and angry farmers resisting foreclosures and...