Asia celebrates Obama's historic win

"MANILA: Champagne corks popped across Asia as former schoolmates in Indonesia, the Japanese town of Obama and thousands of American expats Wednesday celebrated Barack Obama's historic election as US president.Bars were packed in cities from Beijing to Sydney as election...

NASA Study Says Water Flowed Freely On Mars

"NASA has discovered more evidence pointing to the possibility of life on Mars. Scientists have studied data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and they believe Mars once had large lakes, flowing rivers, and other wet environments that could have supported life. A study...

Transition Online: Europe’s Escape Routes

"Russia's threat in early August to nearly halve the amount of gas it exports to Belarus over unpaid bills must have brought back bad memories for many in Europe. Memories, for instance, of earlier this year, when...

A Condo on The Moon...

"The manned space program heats up as NASA unveils its plans for a lunar base and finds signs of flowing water on Mars. It's getting hard to find many Americans who remember where they were the last time men set foot on the moon. Not only had most of us quit paying attention...

Holocaust archive [with restricted access] tells many new stories

"BAD AROLSEN, Germany - The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks...

Amazon River Flowed Backwards in Ancient Times (SPACE.com / LiveScience....

" Ker Than LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Thu Oct 26, 12:30 PM ET South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both...

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