• French Soldier Stabbed in the Throat While on Patrol Outside Paris

  A French soldier was stabbed by a robed assailant while he was on an antiterrorism patrol in a busy commercial district on the western outskirts of Paris. The 23-year-old soldier lost a lot of blood but he was quickly taken to the hospital and his wounds are not life-threatening. Still, the attack "sent a shudder through the French capital" considering it comes mere days after the ...

• Two freight trains collide in Missouri bringing down overpass

  ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities ...

• Official Woman killed in San Antonio flooding

  View Photo Associated Press/Eric Gay - A San Antonio metro bus sits in floodwaters after it was swept off the road during heavy rains, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric ...

• Student-Built Robots to Race in Mock Mars Rover Challenge

  SALT LAKE CITY What does it take to build and command a vehicle capable of exploring Mars? Ninety students from around the world are about to find out. Next week, in a remote desert in southern Utah, 10 teams from the United States, Canada, India and Poland will compete in the annual University Rover Challenge (URC). The competition is hosted by the Mars Society, a non-profit research ...

• French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris

  PARIS (AP) -- France's military spokesman says a soldier has been stabbed in the throat in the French commercial district of La Defense outside ...

• Powerful New US Military Satellite Launches Into Orbit

  '); A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-5) satellite lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on May 24, 2013. Wideband Global SATCOM provides anytime, anywhere communication for the warfighter through broadcast, multicast, and point to point ...

• Watch 3 planets form triangle in sky

  If skies are clear, you'll be able to see Venus, Jupiter and Mercury appear to group together just above the western horizon shortly after sunset on Sunday, May 26th. It is an optical illusion; the planets won't be close. But the grouping -- which will resemble a triangle -- will be distinct, and there won't be anything quite like it again until January 2021. The best time to look ...

• Amazing Night Launch Photos Delta 4 Rocket Launches Military Satellite

  A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-5) satellite lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on May 24, 2013. Wideband Global SATCOM provides anytime, anywhere communication for the warfighter through broadcast, multicast, and point to point ...

• Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse

  The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country’s infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for error and were never intended to carry the number of cars and trucks they see ...

• Gay soccer player Robbie Rogers joins LA Galaxy

  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File). FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photo, Columbus Crew's Robbie Rogers celebrates after scoring against the San Jose Earthquakes during the second half of an MLS soccer match in San ...

• Space Trip With Leo DiCaprio Auctioned For $1.5 Million | Video

  A star-studded celebrity auction for the charity amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, raises over 25 million dollars (19 million euros) at the Cannes film festival, with one lucky bidder winning the chance to fly into space with Leonardo ...

• Russian police detain activists foes at gay rally

  Police detain a gay rights supporter, left, and an opponent, right, who scuffle during an unsanctioned gay rally near the City Hall in Moscow, Saturday, May 25, 2013. The Kremlin initiated a bill banning "propaganda of homosexuality" and routinely banned gay rallies and parade. Russian police say they detained at least 30 gay rights campaigners and their opponents at an unsanctioned ...

• Girls suicide after alleged attack troubles town

  Audrie 's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy. By all accounts, Audrie was a gorgeous girl. Her lush brown hair framed a heart-shaped face. Light makeup outlined her sharp brown eyes, but round cheeks gave her a childlike charm. She was a soccer player, a painter, a girl who at age 4 had the gumption to stand in front of 1,000 people in church and belt out a ...

• Rocky Alien Planets What The Heck Is On Their Surfaces

  In 2011, NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it was then the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. We don’t have the budget yet ...

• Russian pays $1.5M to go to space with DiCaprio at Cannes auction

  Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at a photocall for the film "The Great Gatsby" during the 66th annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2013. UPI/David ...

• Friend of alleged soldier killer arrested at BBC

  LONDON (AP) -- Counterterrorism police on Saturday questioned a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the killing of an unarmed British soldier, a savage attack that has horrified ...

• Thousands watch as murdered anti-Mafia priest is beatified in Sicily

  Pope Benedict , put Puglisi on the fast track towards sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church when he signed a decree last year recognizing that Puglisi had been killed "in hatred of the faith." That meant he could be beatified - the last step before sainthood - without a miracle being attributed to his intercession with God. A miracle is required for him to be declared a saint, ...

• Famed Pair of Stars Closer To Earth Than We Imagined

  An artist’s conception of the SS Cygni system, with a red dwarf star’s material being pulled on to a nearby white dwarf. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF If you’re a semi-serious amateur astronomer, chances are you’ve heard of a variable pair of stars calledSS Cygni. When you watch the system for long enough, you’re rewarded with a brightness outburst that then ...

• Space History Photo LASRE Pod Mating to SR-71

  In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a rear/side view of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment (LASRE) pod on NASA SR-71, tail number 844 is shown. This photo was taken during the fit-check of the pod on Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, California. The LASRE experiment was designed to provide in-flight data to help Lockheed Martin evaluate the aerodynamic ...

• What Detroit crisis Pension fund trustees hang out in Hawaii

  Detroit's emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr talks to members of the media outside the Detroit Newspapers building about the report he delivered to the State of Michigan about Detroit's finances, in Detroit, Michigan May 13, ...

• Paper Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence

  TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of hauntings. Abe has not moved into the prime minister's official residence for five months since he took power. Asked by an opposition lawmaker ...

• Friend of suspect in U.K. slaying arrested

  Lee Rigby , hacking at his body with knives and a meat cleaver, on a London street in front of dozens of passersby on Wednesday afternoon. Both suspects were shot by police at the scene and are hospitalized under guard in stable condition. The BBC said Nusaybah was arrested by police outside its studios Friday night immediately after recording the interview. "This interviewee had ...

• Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

  Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...

• NASA One shuttle tank fixed

  NASA has modified the first huge external space shuttle tank, a fix meant to avoid repeating a 2003 tragedy that killed seven astronauts and has grounded the shuttles since, the agency said Tuesday.An inquiry board recommended the repair to prevent pieces of insulating foam breaking away from the skin of the tanks and striking the shuttle itself, which was the apparent cause of the February 1, ...

• Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region of Dagestan

  MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A female suicide bomber injured at least 11 police officers and civilians, including two children, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. He did not give details about the injured children. Since 2000, at least two ...

• Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital

  KABUL, Afghanistan-A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the country's east killed 12 people at a mosque during ...

• No Quick Fix for Downed Bridge on Holiday Weekend

  Washington state officials are scrambling to find a temporary fix for a bridge that collapsed on an important interstate highway and, incredibly, left just three motorists with injuries. Whatever the solution, it won't come in time to help with Memorial Day's highway hoards. Transportation experts are also working to find out whether the spectacular disintegration of the heavily ...

• Scientists get first up-close images of Saturn storm

  NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraf, according to JPL in Pasadena, Los Angeles.On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first detected the storm that has been raging ever since. It appears approximately 35 ...

• Astronomers find massive black holes common in early Universe

  Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday in a statement.The discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the ...

• Chiles Indians take on worlds largest gold miner

  In this May 23, 2013 photo, security officers walk away from the entrance of the Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua-Lama facilities, in northern Chile. Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday, May 24, 2013, and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its ...

• 16 children 1 teacher dead in Pakistan bus fire

  LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught ...

• Angel Flight Crashes in NY 2 Killed 1 Missing

  The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the search for ...

• Improving economy alters political landscape

  FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The economy is clearly, if slowly, recovering on Obama s watch and robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. But the alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue ...

• Chinas Lunar Exploration Program

  China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has ...

• Haynes Johnson Dead Pulitzer-Winning Journalist And Author Dies At 81

  WASHINGTON - Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a heart ...

• NASA Head Envisions Bright Future For Ames Research Center In Mountain View

  MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS) – The Ames Research Center will play an important role in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's future, despite sequestration cuts that have impacted some day to day operations recently, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Cutting edge technology such as 3D printers capable of creating almost anything needed for a space mission, and experiments ...

• Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior ...

• Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing

  FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...

• Chinas satellite data network reaches South China Sea

  A satellite data receiving station was launched on Friday enabling China to now obtain observation information about the South China Sea. The station, in Sanya in south China's island province of Hainan, was launched by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China will now be able to obtain satellite remote sensing data of the ...

• Delta 4 rocket boosts military comsat into orbit

  A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket vaulted away from Cape Canaveral Friday and lofted a $342 million military communications satellite into orbit after a picture-perfect climb to space. Running a day late because of trouble with a launch pad helium system, the 217-foot-tall Delta 4's RS-68 main engine ignited and throttled up to full thrust at 8:27 p.m. EDT (GMT-4), followed an instant ...

• Report Fallen bridge had earlier gouges impact damage

  View Photo Associated Press/Elaine Thompson - Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load ...

• Ohio kidnap rescuer wont endorse free burgers

  Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw, ...

• Supermoon rare planetary lineup in Fridays night sky

  The holiday weekend and unofficial start of summer will kick off Friday night with some good skywatching: a closer-than-usual full moon, and a rare planetary cluster. Because it's within a day of lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month - the moon will be about 17,000 miles closer than average. That qualifies it as a "supermoon." Rising at 8:09 p.m. ...

• View stunning changes to the Earth’s landscape

  Google and Time magazine have stitched together satellite images collected by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, showcasing developments in our planet's landscape via time-lapse. NBC's Rehema Ellis ...

• Space station leaking vital coolant above Earth

  NASA says that a radiator leak on the power system of the International Space Station, 200 miles above Earth, is serious but not life-threatening. Engineers are working to re-route electronics to avoid the leak and as of now, there are no emergency plans to evacuate the crew of six, including two American ...

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