Prince William and his wife Kate went Saturday to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This final stage of their one week journey in India and Bhutan rekindles remembrances for the royal couple ... – WN.com, Ayite C. d'ALMEIDA. ....
PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500...Vice President Jorge Glas reported the death toll at a somber news conference, while PresidentRafael Correa flew back from Rome to deal with the crisis ... ___ ... ....
photo: NASA / ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
QUITO. Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades, a 7.8-magnitude tremor, struck off the Pacific coast on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and causing damage near the epicenter as well as in the largest city of Guayaquil. PresidentRafael Correa declared a national emergency and urged the Andean nation's 16 million people to stay calm ... Authorities urged people to evacuate coastal areas for fear of rising tides ... Refinery closed. ... ....
George WashingtonColonials) ... -- The GeorgeWashington lacrosse team's offense broke out in a big way on Sunday afternoon at CaryStreetField, as the Colonials downed Atlantic 10 rival VCU, 20-12, for their second straight victory. The Colonials' 20 goals against VCU are their most since scoring 21 against Liberty on Feb ... The 19 draw controls were a season high for the Colonials in 2016....
George WashingtonColonials) ... -- The GeorgeWashington women's water polo team ended the regular season with a pair of losses to ranked CWPA opponents on Sunday afternoon at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool, as the Colonials fell to No ... In the first game of the day, Michigan jumped out to a 6-0 lead after one quarter before sophomore Scarlett Hallahan put the Colonials on the board with a power play goal 47 seconds into the second period....
Our goal is to get a real idea of the overall diversity of a coral colony.' This approach will give us new information concerning the still-unknown role of biological, chemical and physical parameters in the life of coral colonies and their ability to adapt to environmental change ... 'The scientific community needs new data, but local and international groups need this information too....
George WashingtonColonials) April 17, 2016 ... Sophomore Chris Shaffer set a new program record in the 800-meter run when he finished in 1.57.45, breaking the previous mark by less than a second (1.58.03). Freshman Sawyer Bilton (1.58.36) and senior Rob Craven (1.59.03) also set new personal records in the event ... All five runners in the 1,500-meter run set new personal records....
Lock HavenAthletics) LOCK HAVEN, Pa ... 13 Lock HavenUniversity lacrosse team (13-2) put together a complete 60 minutes and dominated No ... The win was Lock Haven's 13 (13-2) and extended the Bald Eagles win streak to four games ... Lock Haven led 8-2 at halftime ... A huge story in the game was Lock Haven's dominance in draw controls ... Lock Haven heads to Millersville on Wednesday, April 20 with a 4 p.m....
MIAMI -- They're not in a critical stage by any means, but the Marlins have created a mess for themselves that has manager Don Mattingly monitoring to make sure his club is staying together and upbeat ... "The reason our record isn't better is because we haven't done enough to win," Mattingly said ... "We just haven't been good enough as a team to get those wins.". As an organization, the Marlins haven't had a winning season since 2009 ... ....
There’s a pictorial on “28 Places To Go in 2016” for exercise-minded travelers that ranges from Maryland’s secluded Smith Island, where the local denizens still speak with an EnglishColonial accent, to mountain biking in Bentonville, Ark., the well-funded home of retail giant Walmart... The new trend when finishing a hard workout ... New Yorker ... NewYork....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Albert Pujols got the Los Angeles Angels started with a mighty blast in the first inning. From there on out, the Angels flailed away and were swept right out of Target Field. Pujols hit his 562nd career home run, but the Angels went hitless for the final eight innings of a 3-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday ... "We haven't been able to open some things up. "It's going to start not with just one guy ... ....
The conservative enclave of NewYork City greeted the Republican frontrunner from with an award and adulation that surprised even the businessman ...The island, five miles off the coast of Manhattan and about 1,000ft from NewJersey, is a rare Republican bastion deep within the blue limits of New York City ... But then “after listening to him and hearing his point of view, I haven’t had any doubt.”....