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Personal space travel has become a far more feasible business proposition. An adventure that will be costly for the foreseeable future and far from risk-free. Even at price tags in the range of $150,000 per trip, there are already waiting lists of ea
"It is the Taj Mahal of forensic science; it is a beautiful place," said the New Orleans coroner. "But by the time we moved there we were finished with all the autopsies." After 10 weeks, the FEMA shut down a $17 million state-of-
Salon.com has obtained files and other electronic documents from an internal Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal. Includes more than 1,000 photographs, videos and supporting documents from the Army's probe, may represent
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brushed aside requests that he remove himself from the investigation of Jack Abramoff and the lobbyist's ties to Bush administration officials and members of Congress. Gonzales said the inquiry is being run by ca
Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past. The Internet calling service provides free voice calls and instant messaging between users. Unlike other Internet voice services, Skype calls are encrypted.
Russia's top military chief warned the US against launching a military strike against Iran and a top diplomat voiced hope that close cooperation with China could help resolve the Tehran nuclear crisis. With tension mounting over Iran's nuclea
The F-14 "Tomcat", the fighter jet that soared into the national imagination in the movie Top Gun, has flown into the danger zone for the last time. The Navy announced that the last F-14 combat mission was completed Feb. 8, when a pa
Federal investigators are targeting the Democratic congressman for allegedly demanding cash and other favors for himself and relatives, in exchange for using his congressional clout to arrange African business deals. A former aide recently
About 200 people were believed killed and 1,500 others were missing in the central Philippines when a landslide buried an entire village, with only a few houses left standing after the side of a mountain collapsed. A sea of mud 6 yards deep.
The US human spaceflight program is "strained to the limit," NASA's chief said, warning against any long gap between the end of the shuttle era and the first flight of a planned new spaceship. "The US risks both a real and a percei
A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide.
The Army’s first and only battlefield laser system is back. In 2003, the Army sent ZEUS, a Humvee armed with a 10kw solid-state laser, to Afghanistan, to blast mines and other explosives left over from years of war. Now ZEUS is in Iraq as part of a 3
Citing a mountain of unpaid bills, the governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia have shut off gasoline exports to Iraq. With options dwindling and Iraqis demanding fuel, Baghdad has begun to negotiate with its former arch-rival, Iran.
The Bush administration is defending approval of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over operations at six major American ports. "We wouldn't turn the border patrol or the customs service over to a f
Consumer boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries in protest of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad are costing Denmark's companies millions, and have raised fears of irreparable damage to trade ties.
Back in the 1980s, airline pilots were told they must have been seeing things when they reported flashes of light shooting up toward space atop thunderstorms. But in recent years, scientists have photographed the mysterious flashes and
Israeli lawmakers blasted a decision to build a museum of tolerance on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, which has provoked anger among Arabs. "The initiators of the tolerance museum project could have shown a mini
A federal judge dealt a setback to the Bush administration on its warrantless surveillance program, ordering them to release documents about the highly classified effort within 20 days or compile a list of what it is withholding.
The Maryland Board of Elections allowed Diebold to operate its touch-screen voting machines during the state's 2002 gubernatorial election and the 2004 presidential primaries before they certified the machines in violation of state law,
UN atomic watchdog chief ElBaradei has warned in quiet diplomacy that it will be hard to strike a compromise on Iran's nuclear program without letting it do small-scale enrichment work—something the West firmly rejects, diplomats told AFP.
The Senate Intelligence Committee decided today not to investigate President Bush's domestic surveillance program. "I believe that such an investigation is currently unwarranted and would be detrimental to this highly classified program,
A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities. The flat, roughly ring-shaped prehistoric pendant probably had religious significance. Only three such gold artifacts have been discovered
A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be drama
The Senate pushed the Patriot Act a step closer to renewal, overwhelmingly rejecting an effort to block it. "We still have not addressed some of the most significant problems with the Patriot Act," Feingold said. At the White House, spokesm
Germany's constitutional court has scrapped a law allowing the military to shoot down passenger planes suspected of being hijacked for terror attacks. The government had no right to kill those on the plane to try to save the lives of others.
After meeting with farmers disgruntled over confiscation of their land near Beijing, the middleman who engineered the encounter asked if the journalists were satisfied with the interview. If not, he had other stories to offer. "How about underg
A federal judge ordered California to reformulate the lethal-injection method used to kill condemned inmates, saying the original might be unconstitutionally painful.
It is not often that the menu of a presidential inaugural dinner provides insight into a country's development plans. At the dinner for Bolivia's Evo Morales— the fare included coca cake, coca cookies, coca wine and coca sweets.
The law makes it a crime to anonymously "annoy, abuse, threaten or harass" another person over the Internet. It carries a prison sentence of up to two years and an unspecified fine for those convicted of violations.
The United Nations is demanding the immediate closing of America's Guantanamo Bay detention center. The UN is also calling for the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees,
