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. ... ....
warned of "desperate" conditions inside a war-ravaged Palestinian refugeecamp in Damascus... warned that humanitarian conditions are "desperate" inside a Palestinian refugee camphome to about 10,000 civilians in the capital, Damascus ... Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, said violent battles between extremists have left residents of the Yarmoukcamp without food or water for more than a week....
While it won't be in pads, and while there won't be any contact, there will be 11-on-11, offense-vs-defense work and the Eagles are going to take the X's and O's learned in Phase 1 of the offseason and apply them in a voluntary team mini-camp which begins Monday when players report to the NovaCare Complex. The on-field portion of the camp runs Tuesday through Thursday....
Amnesty InternationalEuropean Institutions Office) Refugees living in squalid conditions in Idomeni refugee camp, Greece... This is why people are getting sick,' a Syrian woman who was nine-months pregnant told Amnesty International at a makeshift camp in Idomeni ... 'Why don't they let us go? They want us to die here?' asked a 70-year-old couple from Aleppo, who were camping in Idomeni....
A Syrian woman who was nine-months pregnant at a makeshift camp in Idomeni on the Macedonian border told Amnesty. ... I don't sleep [in the camp], it's too smelly.'. In another camp in Athens - an informal set up in Piraeus port - there are between 3,000 and 5,000 people staying with only a few basic services provided by volunteers, a few humanitarian organisations and the port authorities....
An own goal from Ivan Rakitic and a strike from SantiMina saw Valencia claim a famous 2-1 win over Barcelona at Camp Nou ... But after sealing an impressive 2-1 against defending champions Barca at Camp Nou, Ayestaran dedicated the win to the Valencia faithful. "This is the least that we could give back to the supporters," the 53-year-old said ... ....
Watch...The spring college football evaluation period should bring more than a few schools by to check out the 6-foot-3, 180-pound class of 2018 prospect, and this summer's cycle of college camps should give him a platform to shine on, too ... Penn StateCommitMicah Parsons and CampHill'sBill Williams in Action At East CoastElite 7-on-7 Penn State Commit Micah Parsons and Camp Hill's Bill Williams in Action At East Coast Elite 7-on-7 ... ....
Simon Pagenaud raced to his first victory for Team Penske by holding off Scott Dixon in the caution-free Grand Prix of Long Beach... The Dixoncamp interpreted the rule as a clear violation, but IndyCar only gave Pagenaud a warning ... They didn't tell us what the penalty was, but he shouldn't be leading the race." ... The manufacturer has won all three races this season and the Hondacamp has been complaining that they are at a disadvantage....
In the war going on between Daesh and al-Nusra Front near the Syrian capital of Damascus, Palestinian refugees have been trapped in “desperate” conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus without food or water for more than a week ... ....