WASHINGTON. Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, Nasa's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system. The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with the object located deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69, is January 1, 2019 ... RELATED. From around the web....
It has become something of a maxim that the Chilcot Inquiry, set up in 2009 to consider the UK’s role in the Iraq war, has taken longer to conclude than the war itself. And at an anticipated 2.6million words, the resulting report – to be published on Wednesday – is longer than War and Peace, the Complete Works of Shakespeare and the Bible combined. The question on everybody’s lips is whether it will be worth the wait – and the weight....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingPerhaps a more fundamental question than to why politicians change their positions on certain issues is what gives a person the right to make binding decisions on behalf of the future ... Indeed, what would the United States be like if politicians never changed their views on slavery, civil rights or economic policies that included more people ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The hostages were given a test. recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were slain ... The attack marks an escalation in militant violence that has hit the traditionally moderate Muslim-majority nation with increasing frequency in recent months, with the extremists demanding the secular government revert to Islamic rule ... Gen ... Col ... ....
WASHINGTON. The US government accepted responsibility on Friday for inadvertently killing up to 116 civilians in strikes in countries where America is not at war, a major disclosure likely to inflame debate about targeted killings and use of drones ... But the figures, which covered strikes from the day Obama took office in January 2009 through Dec ... They say the government goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties ... ... ....
