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Lt. Cmdr. Chris Cassidy, center, practices docking the space shuttle with his shuttle commander and pilot in a virtual reality simulator at Johnson Space Center.

First Permanent VR Cinema Opens In Amsterdam

Samhoud Media has opened its first permanent virtual reality theater in Amsterdam, Mashable reports. Unlike a traditional movie theatre, the VR Cinema doesn’t have a screen with seats facing it. Instead, moviegoers

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Justice Department Seeks New Judge In Appeal Of New York iPhone Case

The U.S. Justice Department sought to overturn a ruling by a judge to unlock an encrypted iPhone belonging to a drug dealer as the government sought a hearing before another judge, Reuters reported Monday. The magistrate judge previously sided with Apple, ruling the Justice Department

Obama administration pays out $500m to climate change project

The first chunk of a $3bn commitment made at the Paris climate talks ‘shows the US stands squarely behind climate commitments’, the State Department said

Egyptian man behind Donald Trump Facebook threat to leave U.S.

(Reuters) - An Egyptian aviation student in California who made a threatening Facebook post toward U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has agreed to leave the country and could be gone by the end of the week, his attorney said on Monday. Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE)

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, left, speaks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, and European Council President Donald Tusk, center, after a final media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Tuesday, March 8, 2016.

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EU welcomes bold Turkey plan to stop refugees, defers decision

--> EU leaders hold 15-hour summit with Turkey in Brussels. European Union leaders welcomed Turkey's offer on Monday to take back all refugees who cross into Europe from its soil and agreed in principle to Ankara's demands for more money, faster EU membership talks and quicker visa-free travel in return. However, key details remained to be worked out and the 28 leaders

Day 13 of the Sony Open Women's Final Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs Serena Williams (USA) at Crandon Park Tennis Center Key Biscayne, Florida - March 30, 2013

Maria Sharapova a drug cheat? The potential ramifications for one of the biggest stars in sport

If the possible, but unlikely, four-year ban hanging over Maria Sharapova's much-photographed head is duly imposed by the International Tennis Federation under its anti-doping program, her golden career is almost certainly over. For the almost-29-year-old with a history of comebacks from injury and – we now discover – illness problems, even a more probable

Indian security forces patrol inside the Indian air force base in Pathankot, India, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016.

Delhi on high alert for Shivratri terror strike

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has stepped up security around temples, iconic buildings, malls and markets, and military installations in Delhi and NCR after an Intelligence Bureau alert that terrorists might strike today, on the occasion of Shivratri. The alert warns that 10 operatives of Lashkar-e-Taiba or

Military soldiers are silhouetted against a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a flower festival as part of celebrations a day before the birthday anniversary, also known as the "Day of the Shining Star," of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. On Tuesday, Feb. 16, North Korea marks the late leader Kim Jong Il's 74th birthday anniversary

N Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike on South, US

SEOUL: North Korea threatened "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes against South Korea and the US mainland if the two allies push ahead with joint military drills scheduled to begin today. The threat to carry out what it described as a "pre- emptive nuclear strike of justice" was made in a statement by the North's powerful National

A backlit laptop computer keyboard. Most fingers are on the "home" keys for touch-typing; the 'U' key is being pressed.

Apple Mac users targeted by first ‘ransomware’ campaign, in which hackers hold data hostage

Apple customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers said. Ransomware, one of the fastest-growing types of cyber threats, encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to pay ransoms in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, left, and, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., argue a point during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Michigan-Flint, Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Flint, Mich.

Clinton and Sanders clash in bad-tempered Democratic debate

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have tangled aggressively in a Democratic presidential debate over trade and Wall Street influence. Ms Clinton accused her opponent of turning his back on the car industry while Mr Sanders countered that her friends on Wall Street had "destroyed this economy". Share Go To It was a marked change in tone for the two Democrats, signalling his

A woman takes off a life vest from a baby, shortly after crossing the Aegean sea on a dinghy, with other refugees and migrants, from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015.

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EU leaders to hold Turkey talks over migrant crisis

EU leaders are to hold a critical summit with Turkey in Brussels today in an attempt

File - After the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, thousands of Soviet soldiers assist with the cleanup, 1 May, 1986.

Chernobyl 30 years on: former residents remember life in the ghost city of Pripyat

Evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear accident remember relatives, friends and colleagues who died – and the abandoned city declared unsafe for 24,000 years

Chinese President Xi Jinping, attends the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Thursday, March 3, 2016. The more than 2,000 members of China's top legislative advisory body convened their annual meeting Thursday, kicking off a political high season that will continue with the opening of the national congress on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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China's Communist party punished nearly 300,000 members for graft in 2015

BEIJING: China's ruling Communist Party punished nearly 300,000 of its members last year for corruption, its graft watchdog said amid a wide-ranging crackdown by President Xi Jinping on official malfeasance. The

File: An injured boy carries an injured girl as he runs towards a safe area a few minutes after the suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016.

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Suicide blast in Pakistan court kills 8

At least eight people were killed and 15 others injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a court in this north-western

The iceberg suspected of having sunk the RMS Titanic.

Iceberg that sank the Titanic was a 100,000-year-old giant, scientists discover

The iceberg that sank the Titanic is thought to be 100,000 years old, according to scientists who have been tracing the origins of the colossal lump to Greenland . ...

An estimated 9000 anti-war demonstrators gather in Chicago’s Grant Park on August 28, 1968, with the announced intention of marching on the site of the Democratic National Convention, the International Amphitheater.

Superdelegates Or Stupordelegates: What Katie Couric, Establishment Got Wrong

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling stupor (stooper) n. 1. dazed state: an acute lack of mental alertness. 2. unconsciousness: a state of near unconsciousness induced by drugs or alcohol. “Who controls the past controls the future;” warned George Orwell in “1984,” and “who controls the present controls the past.” Such was the case in “Superdelegates Explained,” an

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks with security after talking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, in Washington. Sen. McConnell and his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown after Republican divisions forced GOP leaders to drop efforts to ram their own version through the House.

Cruz: Media Hopeful Trump Nominee So They Can Release Controversial Information

First it was 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney lambasting 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Now, according to a Monday Inquisitr report, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump may be in serious trouble once he gets the nomination – and not from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or fellow Republicans. Interviewed on CBS’ Face The Nation program, Cruz claims the media is trying to

File - Volunteers load a vehicle with bottled water at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 in Flint, Mich. Michigan.

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Children of Flint: Inheriting anxiety, giving up hope

Flint, Michigan (CNN)Eight-year-old Nadia Baylor sits on the floor in her home in Flint, Michigan, playing with her toys, giggling and chattering -- until she talks about the water. "This water is poison," she says, without skipping a beat. "If I drink it, I going to die and I don't want to die. Nobody want to die." Nadia's mother and others across the city say they repeatedly,

People shelter from the gun fire outside a house, in El Aouija, outside Ben Guerdane, 650 km away from Tunis, Wednesday, March 2, 2016.

International force ready for Libya deployment as terror threat fears grow

At least 45 dead across border in Tunisia after gunmen attacked police station and military targets on Monday

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 file photo, a hole is photographed in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Notebook Computer Explodes At Somali Airport, Six Wounded Including Two Policemen

In a second attack in two months, a notebook computer exploded at a Somalian airport Monday wounding six people in a civilian aviation offensivie, Al Jazeera reported. The bomb detonated at a Beledweyne checkpoint, 325km north of the capital

Venezuela opposition begins campaign to depose Maduro

Officer must testify against colleagues in Freddie Gray case

Will U.S. democracy commit suicide?

MH370 search: Malaysian Prime Minister's full statement on second anniversary of flight's disappearance

Manhattan’s Elite Declares War On Blue-Collar Billionaire Trump

UN refugee agency criticises 'quick fix' EU-Turkey deal

Limit the Next President’s Power to Wage Drone Warfare

China: No plan for couples to have as many kids as they want