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At a "media availability" he called this morning, Taliban Larry was blindsided with questions on the publication of the Wikileaks war logs. Echoing U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones, Cannon said :...
A Kepler co-investigator has preempted the official announcement and leaked that the exoplanet-hunting space telescope has discovered about 140 Earth-like candidate worlds orbiting other stars.
By Hanif Khalid Pakistan will possibly test-fire nuclear missile tomorrow (Tuesday).Civil and military personalities will reach the test fire range in north Punjab through helicopters to watch the test fir...
During the 24-hour-long operation, he received new facial muscles, skin, nose, lips, a jaw, teeth, a palate and cheekbones.
The largest species of rat ever discovered was about 50 percent larger than the common black rat.
ENVIRONMENT - Ontario is in a race versus 8 American states to see who will get wind power factories by wind giant Vestas from Denmark. The company is planning to build factories for building offshore wind...
Julian Assange on Wikileaks release of 91,000 classified Afghan war documents from 2004 to 2009 to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. "This is the story of the war since 2004. Like most ...
The miniature mills could power a whole new generation of nano-sized devices.
CANADA/ENTERTAINMENT - Next year on August 31st 2011 Canadian television broadcasters will switch from analog to 100% digital broadcasts. The rabbit ears on your old TV will become completely obsolete. Ca...
Lasers have a natural advantage over conventional weapons -- their ammunition doesn't easily run out.
POLITICS - In China Tony Hayward would have been shot for gross negligence. The Chinese government has zero tolerance for companies and individuals who fail to protect the safety of the country. Remember ...
A chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at t...
From a ship overrun with spiders to bed bug infestations at major clothing stores, is this the time of plagues?
A helicopter on Monday morning crashed in eastern part of Afghan capital Kabul, Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said. "A helicopter crashed in Pul-e-Charkhi area east of capital city Kabul," Azimi t...
The finely serrated teeth of sharks are fearsome enough, but now scientists say that even touching the skin of a shark could harm you -- by infection.
India on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off th...
It's been a busy few days for the Mars Science Laboratory after NASA engineers and technicians attach the rover's 'eyes' and take it for a test drive.
Brass hats and ass hats are not happy about what is called one of the biggest 'leaks in military history', certainly the biggest expose since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. Wikileaks has blown...
Do we have an ethical duty to respect and preserve the natural environments of neighboring planets and their moons?
Israel and the United States have signed an agreement to make the Arrow II ballistic shield capable of shooting down missiles at a higher altitude, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Sunday.The Arrow III...
The black box of the MiG-27 aircraft, which crashed yesterday in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, was retrieved today as the toll rose to three, with two more persons succumbing to their injuries. The b...
A senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Sunday that Iran is now capable of mass-producing its home-made ballistic missiles."We have reached a never-ending point in (in...
Turkish defence industry company KaleKalip, a Kale Holding company, will produce F135 engines of the F35 Joint Strike Fighters, Turkey's state minister for foreign trade said. F135 engine is being built by...
Preparation for the test-fire of India's own interceptor missile, likely to be conducted tomorrow at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) off Orissa coast, reached its final stage today.The target, a modified s...
CANADA - Canadians are hopping mad about the scrapping of the long form census and its not just politicians, economists, researchers, scientists, university professors and academics. The general public is ...
A team of Canadian archaeologists is leading an expedition to find two British vessels that shipwrecked in the Canadian Arctic more than 150 years ago.
South Korea and the United States will establish a new roadmap to outline a broader alliance by the year’s end in tandem with a changing security environment around the Korean Peninsula, the Ministry of Na...
Four state-of-the-art U.S. stealth fighters will join a massive combined air and naval exercise to be held by South Korea and the United States in the East Sea later this month in a show of the allies’ str...
Israel's defense ministry said July 23 it was not looking to buy a sixth submarine from Germany at this time, after a German media report that Berlin had rejected an Israeli request for a subsidy.Israel ha...
By WENDELL MINNICK, JUNG SUNG-KI and PAUL KALLENDER-UMZEU The potential market in Asia for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) could be more than 500 fighters in the next two decades, with Japan, Singapore...
A request for proposals for the Japanese Air Force's $10 billion F-X tender is expected as early as October, and the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and Eurofighter Typhoon are preparing to duke it out for the ...
An Indian state seen as a bastion of an increasingly deadly Maoist revolt said yesterday it was asking for $1bn to counter the left-wing insurgency with a development surge.Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Rama...
Qatar has asked a number of leading manufacturers to respond with proposals for an upgrade of its fighter fleet near the end of this month.This latest battle for supremacy in the Gulf fighter market is lik...
By: Daniel Kostecka The ongoing debate in China over whether or not to formalize logistical support agreements for Chinese naval forces in the Indian Ocean is a natural outgrowth of the People’s Liberation...
What is causing the Universe to expand at an accelerated rate? Astronomers have demonstrated a new technique with the largest fully-steerable radio telescope to attack this enduring problem.
. Francis Silvaggio : Notes from Afghanistan, July 2, 2010 "While I doubt Ipsos would approve of the collection process, the data was interesting. Out of 26 respondents, only 7 thought progress was being ...
NaPo : *Vindication for Taliban Jack* (h/t : Boris) "So *now* it’s time to talk to the Taliban. Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told reporters on Tuesday that the Taliban has an importan...
Russia's new generation S-500 air defense system will resolve the country's missile defense problems when it enters service, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin said.The S-500 is expected t...
Russia will most likely continue holding a second place on the global market of new multirole fighter jets until at least 2013, a Russian arms trade expert said."We are expecting a significant growth of th...
A farmer died and at least 25 other people were injured on Saturday when a Soviet-era MiG-27 Indian war plane crashed into a village in eastern India, police said.The pilot, Saket Verma, ejected before the...
The work to plug BP's leaky oil well got back on track Sunday as the skies cleared and crews raced to plug the well for good.
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy It was stated recently on Facebook that investigating 911 is a waste of time, that nothing was 'likely to be proven'. That's obvious! It is the purpose of a cover up...
Two years after arriving at the International Space Station, the Canadian-built Dextre robot is ready to get to work.
The Peruvian Defense Ministry and Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport have signed a contract for the sale of eight Russian-built helicopters to the South American country, the Russian co...
The seniormost US military commander, Admiral Michael Mullen, will be in town on Thursday and Friday but India still remains cold to inking three military pacts connected with technology safeguards and log...
Russia and NATO are discussing the possible delivery of 27 Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, NATO Military Committee Chairman Giampaolo di Paola said on Friday.Read More
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*Linux always had the reputation* to be a difficult OS for making video and audio productions. Making screencasts to demonstrate certain topics, editing videos the way Windows Movie Editor did, using a web...
If you live in fear of asteroids, then here's a sobering fact for you: Our planet absorbs asteroid impacts like a truck grille eats bugs. Plus, according to Donald K. Yeomans, most aren’t worth getting ben...
The cooperative behavior of ants and slime molds is mimicked in a computer model and could lead to new ways of delivering drugs inside the body.
The massive pock in southwestern Egypt was created no more than a few thousand years ago.
A dog jaw bone fossil found in a Swiss cave may be the oldest evidence of human-canine companionship.
Scientists and academics accuse the energy giant of trying to buy silence to protect itself after the spill.
By Charles Moffat - July 2010. ART HISTORY/CANADA - I have multiple art history books on my shelf written by Dennis Reid so it comes as a shock that the curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario has been forc...
TECHNOLOGY - It looks like an iPad but at $35 it is a fraction of the cost. The new touchscreen tablet being built in India is aimed at students and is going into mass production in 2011. The new touchscr...
Slow speeds and high cost make this new feature a big disappointment.
Tropical Storm Bonnie was expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, delaying efforts to fix the well.
By Brenda Norrell Narcosphere http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/07/racism-irony-and-censorship-trademarks-us-media *Photo: Church Rock Uranium Spill Commemoration by Garrett Bren...
Three distinct types of hydrothermal vents, including the deepest vent yet observed, were discovered along a 100 kilometer long strip in the Caribbean Sea.
Fossilized mammal burrows reveal that some dinosaurs dug into these dens in search of furry morsels.
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ENVIRONMENT - Ontario is in a race versus 8 American states to see who will get wind power factories by wind giant Vestas from Denmark. The company is planning to build factories for building offshore wind...
Brass hats and ass hats are not happy about what is called one of the biggest 'leaks in military history', certainly the biggest expose since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. Wikileaks has blown...
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