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NASA will give the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour another try Monday, after having been repeatedly thwarted by the weather and technical malfunctions. Monday’s attempt is scheduled for 6:51 p.m. Weather forced the cancellation of launch attempts Saturday and Sunday.
On October 2, members of the International Olympic Committee will meet in Copenhagen to decide the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
NASA began preparing for a launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday, a day after liftoff was postponed over concerns of possible effects from a lightning storm. External tank fueling began just before 10 a.m. Sunday, with a planned launch time of 7:13 p.m., NASA said
NASA said Saturday it has postponed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour for at least 24 hours after lightning struck nearly a dozen times near the launch pad. “We need to be 100 percent confident that we have a good system across the board …
Seven Baha’i prisoners face a death-penalty trial Saturday in Iran amid calls for their release from a U.S. panel on religious freedom. Responding to a letter from Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who spent four months in an Iranian jail earlier this year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) demanded the seven prisoners be freed rather than stand trial on charges of espionage and religious violations.
The British tabloid News of the World is no stranger to sleaze. It regularly publishes articles accusing the country’s leading figures of affairs, fraud and other wrongdoing.
Iason Athanasiadis’ ordeal began at the airport, shortly after he checked in for his flight to leave Tehran. “I was heading to the gate,” the Greek-British journalist said.
Oil analysts are jittery this week following comments on Sunday by Vice President Joe Biden that were widely interpreted as a green light to Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The Toyota-owned Fuji International Speedway circuit will stop hosting the Japanese Grand Prix from next year — the track operators have announced. Fuji Speedway hosted the Formula One race in 2007 and 2008
International troops in Afghanistan endured another deadly attack on Tuesday, a day after 10 NATO-led troops were killed in that country. A U.S.