Is Vesta the “Smallest Terrestrial Planet?
NASA Science NASA’s Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta – and may have found a planet. Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only as an indistinct blur and considered little more than a large, rocky body. Now the spacecraft’s instruments are revealing [...]
Read More →Pakistan to deploy air defence weapons on Afghan border
NDTV Pakistan has decided to deploy air defence weapons on its border with Afghanistan to pre-empt fresh attacks by NATO and allied forces in the wake of a cross-border air strike that killed 24 soldiers, according to a media report on Friday. The decision to deploy air defence weapons was made as the country re-evaluates [...]
Read More →Does This Design Of Two Towers Remind You Of Anything?
TheBlaze These residential high-rise buildings to be completed in Seoul, South Korea, by 2015 are connected in the middle by a cloud, which the designer says “differentiates the building from other luxury developments.” The towers designed by architects at MVRDV are 300 and 260 meters high with a “pixelated” cloud in the middle at the 27th floor. [...]
Read More →Extreme weather events are a harbinger of what is to come
Adonai The Watchers Scientists say it’s a global warming thing. We might disagree – but they admit it will get worse. A record number of costly weather events — from floods and droughts to tornadoes — ravaged the United States in 2011, federal scientists said on Wednesday and continued that the unprecedented number of disasters may [...]
Read More →Chinese Navy ready for war
Sergei Balmasov Pravda.ru China’s neighbors are concerned about media reports citing the Chinese leader Hu Jintao, who allegedly ordered the PLA Navy’s command to “prepare for a war.” According to him, in the coming years the Navy should “complete its modernization, gather all the forces to prepare for a war and strengthen national security.” This [...]
Read More →Fears of US-Israeli Attack Rise in Iran
John Glaser AntiWar The constant rhetoric in the U.S. and Israel about potential military strikes against Iran, along with recent revelations about covert U.S. action inside Iran, has terrified a nation staring down the barrel of a superpowers gun. “I don’t think we can know just yet if war will break out, but I am concerned for my [...]
Read More →The CIA’s most secret prison revealed
Russia Today In the historic city of Bucharest, the CIA tortured and interrogated high-risk terrorists for years in a basement prison, under the nose of roughly two million Romanians. An investigation carried out by reporters for the Associated Press led to the news organization revealing on Thursday that in the years after the September 11 [...]
Read More →Japan Widens Sanctions Against Iran
VOA Japan announced Friday that it is imposing a fresh round of financial sanctions against Iran, as European Union leaders meeting in Brussels consider their own plan to turn up the pressure on Tehran over its controversial nuclear program. Japan’s cabinet on Friday said it will freeze the assets of 106 organizations, one individual and [...]
Read More →China denies pursuing ‘neo-colonialism’ policy’ of grabbing land in Africa
NewKerala China has denied that it has been buying land in Africa, and called on countries to undertake “concrete” measures to enable the development of the agricultural sector on the continent. “China always seeks food self-sufficiency through its own domestic output,” Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei, as saying. China has been providing [...]
Read More →Balkan nations knock on EU door despite crisis
Dusan Stojanovic ArabNews As the world nervously watches whether European leaders can save the EU from breakup, another drama brews on the sidelines: the membership struggles of nations trying to break in. On Friday, the day of a crucial EU summit on solving the continent’s debt crisis, representatives of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro will also [...]
Read More →UK left out as euro countries to make own treaty
Honor Mahony EUobserver A group of 23 EU member states is to forge ahead with an intergovernmental agreement on tightening economic governance in the eurozone, following a stormy summit in Brussels that saw the UK sidelined after it overplayed its hand. All 17 euro countries as well as Denmark, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania [...]
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