CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral. The rocket blasted off Saturday evening after thick clouds, heavy rains and a system problem postponed two earlier at
The Pentagon was scrambling on Wednesday to save a multibillion dollar contest to replace the US Air Force’s ageing fleet of air refuelling tankers after Northrop Grumman and EADS in effect withdrew their joint bid.Robert Gates, US defence secretary
Among other things, 2009 may be remembered as the year China's pollution-control industry came of age. Back in May, SmartHeat (NasdaqGM:HEAT - News) migrated to the Nasdaq from a lesser exchange, followed a few months later by Rino International (Na
KHOST, Afghanistan - About 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in a NATO-led air strike in eastern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan police post, a police official and the alliance said on Sunday. Afghan border police commander Sayed Nabi Mul
ADDYSTON, Ohio - A school district near Cincinnati is suing a plastics plant, accusing it of continuing to release chemicals in the air that exceed government safety standards. Three Rivers School District closed an elementary school across the stre
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Version 2.0 of the Royal Palace of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was supposed to conjure this tiny country's glorious past.Instead, it has turned into a modern-day white elephant that is compounding a national economic nightmare
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - About 70 New Zealanders stood in silence in the Antarctic snow Saturday to remember 257 people who perished 30 years earlier when an airplane smashed into a nearby mountain in New Zealand's worst air disaster. After a comme
Angela Merkel’s new government was dealt a blow on Friday after Franz Josef Jung, defence minister in the German chancellor’s previous government, resigned his new portfolio as labour minister.Mr Jung stood accused of playing down the high number of
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