Schwarzenegger honors Capt. Sullenberger; Hudson hero pilot

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today honoured Hudson hero pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger as called him a hero. Sullenberger was honoured in his home state, and Schwarzenegger took a break from trying to fix the...

Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter

"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...

Ohio woman, 89, accused of keeping kids' football

"Police in Ohio say an 89-year-old woman was facing a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children accused her of refusing to give back their football. "

BA plane makes emergency landing

Breaking: A BA plane has made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport after fumes were detected in the cabin. No injuries have been reported."The pilots of a British Airways plane had to request a priority landing at Heathrow after fumes were detected in the passenger...

Somali Islamists target soldiers, 11 civilians die

   Somalia is once again bathing in blood, this time this incident of  mortar attack took place in Mogadishu killing 11 innocent people.Islamist insurgents attacked an African peacekeeping base in...

Update: US Ambassador "expelled" , Two Russian bombers leave Venezuela

Sept-18CARACAS, Two Russian strategic bombers Tu-160 took off from the Maiquetia airport in the Venezuelan capital on Thursday for a patrolling mission to remote areas in the world. The scheduled patrolling...

Men parachute into wrong American football stadium

" McClatchy Newspapers Saturday, August 30, 2008 Duke officials were a bit surprised when, at 6 p.m. EDT on Saturday, about an hour before the scheduled kickoff of their game against James Madison, two men...

British woman survived Madrid plane inferno after being hurled into a stream ...

A true miracle for Kim, who survived from "Final Destination" in Madrid Plane."A stream miraculously saved the life of a British woman hurled, still strapped to her seat, from the exploding Spanair jet.Teacher Kim Tate, 30, was thrown into a stream from the MD-82 jet, in...

Madrid air crash stewardess survived by 'switching seats'

" Antonia Martinez Jimenez, 27, has told relatives that she normally sat at the back of the plane during take-off and landing, but on the ill-fated flight to Gran Canaria last Wednesday she was rostered to...

Caught on camera: The horrific moment a mother and baby were hit by a car... ...

Lucky but dumb, that for sure. The woman definitely breaking a rule by not walking on zebra cross."A baby girl was flung 10ft through the air after her mother was hit by a car as she held the child in a carrier...

Delays after airport jet landing

Newcastle Airport in the UK is facing delays after a Royal Air Force plane had to make an emergency landing there. We're looking for photos and video anyone might have taken of the emergency landing, or any first person accounts."Passengers are facing delays after an RAF jet...

British women face jail after drunken rampage on jumbo jet

British travellers overseas are continuing to make their country proud, with two girls getting so drunk on a flight from Greece to Manchester that they tried to open the plane door during flight. They had to be wrestled to the ground and handcuffed. The incident is just a...

NASA/Ames scientists map our return to the moon

"Thirty-nine years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed "The Eagle has landed" from the Sea of Tranquility, NASA on Sunday turned its eyes toward the moon, gazing both forward and backward in time. For the...

U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWhat I would like to know is, where the hell are the Taliban getting their weapons from? It should be pretty easy, considering our troops capture Taliban, with available...

Mars Lander Phoenix Scoops Martian Soil for First Time

Soil...it's the building blocks of life. It's also a guide to history, both through archeology and in learning how the earth was formed, as well as what happened to it over time. And for the first time ever,...

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