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Breaking News Wed, 24 Oct 2012
A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test.
Defense   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: Strategic Defense Initiative  
 WorldNews.com 
Obama's New 'Star Wars' Initiative Threatens To Reignite Cold War
Article By WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross | President Obama is continuing developmental work on the controversial Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") plan begun in 1983 by President Reagan, ... (photo: US Navy)
Icy exoplanet. Artist's impression. The search for planets outside our Solar System constitutes a key element of what is possibly the most profound question for humanity: is there life elsewhere in the Universe
Photos   Planet   Science   Solar system   Wikipedia: Extrasolar planet  
 BBC News 
Exoplanet around Alpha Centauri is nearest-ever
Astronomers have found the nearest planet outside our Solar System, circling one of the stars of Alpha Centauri just four light-years away. | The planet has at minimum the same mass as Earth, but circ... (photo: Creative Commons)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks before a meeting with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission and Civil Society at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya  Al Jazeera 
Clinton takes responsibility for Libya attack
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she assumes responsibility for last month's deadly attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which has become an issue in the hard-fought... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
Business   Libya   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Hillary Rodham Clinton  
Das Logo von Google markiert einen Sitz des Internetunternehmens in Bruessel, Belgien (Foto vom 23.03.10).  The Wrap 
Yahoo Poaches Google's Henrique de Castro as COO
Print this page Tweet | View the discussion thread. | Ross Levinsohn Leaves Yahoo After Marissa Mayer CEO Hire Jul 30, 2012 | Yahoo Names Google Executive Marissa Mayer CEO Jul 17, 2012 | Yahoo Names ... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Google   Internet   Photos   Wikipedia: Marissa Mayer   Yahoo  
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A demonstrator holds up images of former Haiti's President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. Hundreds of people protested in Haiti's capital over what they say is a higher cost of living. The demonstrators marched through the cinderblock shanties of downtown Port-au-Prince as they criticized the policies of President Michel Martelly. Al Jazeera
Haitians stage anti-president protests
| Hundreds of Haitians have taken to the streets of capital Port-au-Prince to protest higher living costs in the country, calling for President Michel Martelly to resign.... (photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery)
Education   Photos   Politics   Protest   Wikipedia: Michel Martelly  
Ministerial Meeting on Chemical Weapons Convention Aliakbar Salehi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, addresses the Ministerial Meeting on the Chemical Weapons Convention, held at UN Headquarters in New York. Behind him is Mohammad Khazaee, Irans Permanent Representative to the UN. Al Jazeera
UN envoy welcomes Iran proposal on Syria
| Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has given visiting UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi a proposal aimed at ending the 19-month-long conflict in Syria. | Sale... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
Photos   Politics   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Ali Zeidan, a Europe-based envoy for the Libyan National Transitional Council, speaks to the Associated Press in Paris, Monday March, 21, 2011. Zeidan said air strikes, led by France, Britain and the United States, have helped, but the council do not want international forces to invade the country. Al Jazeera
Libya assembly elects new prime minister
| Libya's national assembly has elected a new prime minister, the second within a month to face the daunting challenge of forming a government acceptable to the country's... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon)
Election   Libya   Photos   Politics  
China economic figures shore up global markets The News & Observer
China economic figures shore up global markets
| Dimitri Messinis - AP Photo | Lightening illuminates the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill in Athens on Sunday Oct. 14, 2012. Greece is inching towards a... (photo: WN / marzena)
Ancient   China   Markets   Photos   Wikipedia: Ancient Greece  
File - Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into U.S. military computers and facing extradition to the U.S. to stand trial, leaves the High Court in London after a hearing to prevent his extradition, in this July 14, 2009 file photo. Al Jazeera
UK hacker to learn extradition fate
| Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker who has been fighting a ten-year battle against extradition to the United States is set to learn his fate. | McKinnon was a Sco... (photo: AP / Sang Tan, File)
Crime   Lawmaker   Photos   Technology   Wikipedia: Gary McKinnon  
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles Detroit Free Press
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles
| Update: | Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has landed on Earth after a jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive. | Baumgartner ... (photo: AP / Predrag Vuckovic)
Earth   Mexico   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Felix Baumgartner  
Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member as space shuttle Endeavour and the station approach each other during rendezvous and docking activities. The Examiner
Space Shuttle Endeavour Move
| Tweet | 0 Email | Report | Advertisement | Photo 1 of 9 | The space shuttle Endeavour is seen as it is maneuvered through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Friday,... (photo: NASA)
NASA   Photos   Space   United States   Wikipedia: Space Shuttle Endeavour  
Solar System Galaxies
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- The black hole Sagittarius A, at the heart of our galaxy, ha
- Samsung Galaxy Note II to arrive at US Cellular on Friday, p
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- Beads on a Galaxy-Scale String
Icy exoplanet. Artist's impression. The search for planets outside our Solar System constitutes a key element of what is possibly the most profound question for humanity: is there life elsewhere in the Universe
Exoplanet around Alpha Centauri is nearest-ever
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Eclipse SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
- SpaceX eclipses NASA in U.S. space travel
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- Retrieving the Weather of the Past
- Meteorite From California Fireball Is Meteor-wrong, Scientis
- Manned Mars Missions Could Threaten Red Planet Life
- Greer ups claims, Kokjohn remains unimpressed
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Universe Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
- University of California must reveal Kleiner Perkins' se
- MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Review
- New Zaxby’s on University Boulevard to open Monday
- University of Maryland debuts sustainable housing project
University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale)
University of Phoenix to close 115 locations
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- Error of meteoric proportions: Meteorite is just an Earth ro
- Meteorite From California Fireball Is Meteor-wrong, Scientis
- Object found in Marin thought to be meteor chunk just a rock
- Object thought to be meteor chunk just a rock
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