The death toll from Tuesday’s Taliban attack in Kabul more than doubled overnight from 28 to 64 and most of the casualties were civilians – including women and children, The Associated Press quoting AfghanInterior Ministry officials said Wednesday.Gen.Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul’s police chief, told a news conference Wednesday two investigative teams have been appointed to investigate the attack in Kabul ...Secret Service....
Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik’s human rights have been violated during his imprisonment for terrorism and mass murder, a Norwegian court has ruled ... Agencies. . . ....
Houston (CNN)While some parts of Houston are starting to recover from paralyzing flooding, some residents believe the worst is yet to come. The problem. Cypress Creek in northwest Houston keeps rising and still hasn't crested, officials say, and forecasters expect more rain Wednesday. In the town of Klein, John Martin stuffed his suitcase and bolted for a friend's house ... Read More ...That's more rain than Salt Lake City gets in a year ... 9 ... ....
See Also. A telescope peers into the blackness of deep space. Suddenly – a brilliant flash of light appears that wasn’t there before ... Five years ago, researchers using the ROTSE IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory noticed just such an event ... Astronomers at McDonald had been using the telescope to scan the skies for such nascent flashes for years, as part of the ROTSESupernova Verification Project (SNVP) ... That left only one option ... J ... .....
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Tweet... Known as a gamma-ray burst, light from the rare, high-energy explosion travelled for 12.1 billion years before it was detected and observed by a telescope Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) IIIb ... At the time of this gamma-ray burst's explosion, the universe looked vastly different than it does now ... ) .. ).. Comments. ... . . . . . .. . . .. ....