Just hours after NASA expressed concern about the Kepler space telescope and declared a spacecraft emergency, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and they’re working to figure out what happened, NPR reports. Soaring through space nearly 75 million miles away from Earth, the spacecraft placed itself in EmergencyMode sometime in the middle of last week....
Immigrant children living in the US without legal status have been blocked from registering for school and accessing the educational services they need, according to a report on school districts in four states by Georgetown University Law Center researchers ... All children including those living in the US illegally must attend school through at least the 8th grade or until they turn 16 under compulsory education laws in all 50 states ... ....
DECLAN WALSH. CAIRO. Since KingSalman of Saudi Arabia arrived in Cairo on Thursday for a five-day visit, the leader of the oil-rich kingdom has lavished his Egyptian allies with promises of aid and investment. But this time, instead of writing a blank check with little more than a polite "thank you" to show for it, King Salman will return home Monday with something more substantial in return ... Mr ... After Mr ... For Mr ... ....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A colonel from North Korea's military spy agency fled to South Korea last year in a rare senior-level defection, Seoul officials said Monday. The announcement came three days after Seoul revealed 13 North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country had defected to the South...South Korean media reported the restaurant is located in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo ... ....
Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang, 29, has been accused of colluding with some African men to con dozens of Vietnamese women. Photo credit. Tuoi Tre Police in the southern province of Tay Ninh have arrested a local woman accused of colluding with three African men to swindle 80 Vietnamese women out of nearly US$70,000 in total ... ....
(Source. Crown Publishing Group). New in paperback! Eric Blehm's LEGEND...Sergeant Benavidez was on his way to breakfast at Loc NinhSpecial ForcesCamp, where his unit was stationed in South Vietnam, when he saw badly damaged helicopters returning from the north, the crews describing ground fire like nothing they had seen before ... He'd saved the lives of eight men, but ended the day laid out with the dead on the landing pad at Loc Ninh....
In a David and Goliath move, Vietnam seized a Chinese vessel, disguised as a fishing boat, late last week in what state media described as a Chinese vessel sailing into its territorial waters. The An Ninh Thu Do newspaper said on Sunday that a border defense force discovered the vessel carrying [...] ... ....
During the draw ceremony in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, earlier this week, the Islamic Republic of Iran landed in Pool A of the group stage of the forthcoming sports event, and was pitted against 2012AVC Cup winners and hosts Vietnam, Thailand and Chinese Taipei... The pool round-robin preliminaries will be held over three days from September 14 to 16 ... ....
The Ministry of Finance recently rejected a demand from Samsung Electronics for a 50 percent tax reduction for three more years for its two plants in the provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Ninh. The two received special incentives -- no income tax for the first four years of operations and 50 percent tax for the next nine ... ....
Public SecurityMinister and police general Tran Dai Quang, 59, received 436 votes from 465 assembly members who cast their votes, the Communist government said on its website ... Hailing from northern province of Ninh Binh, Quang rose through the ranks in the powerful Ministry of Public Security and was appointed minister five years ago ... ....
SAN ANTONIO (Tribune News Service) — As one version of the story goes, a crippling performance evaluation was pushing then-Brig. Gen.Colin L. Powell’s military career toward a dead end when two higher-ranking commanders learned of it ...Richard E ... Gen ... Gen ... As a 38-year-old colonel in Vietnam, he earned another DSC in 1967 for organizing a counterattack against a battalion-sized enemy force that hit one of his companies near Loc Ninh ... ....