Bomb Threat Note On American Airlines Plane In Boston

A flight attendant found a note which read "Bomb onboard. Boston to Miami" on American Airlines Flight 1318 at 2:30 pm Wednesday. The flight was pre-boarding when the note was discovered in the lavatory, and all passengers were taken off the plane. The plane was searched, but...

Naxals hijack train; take hundreds hostage in Jharkhand

Naxals hijacked the train in the Latehar district of Jharkhand to enforce the Bihar-Jharkhand bandh called by them today. " Ranchi, April 22: Striking just a day before Jharkhand goes to polls, 200 heavily...

31 chemical containers go overboard off Australia

A ship hit by a tropical cycone today off the coast of Australia lost 31 containers off the side and they could be now leaking chemicals into the ocean. The containters were holding ammonium nitrate, which is a toxic chemical used for making fertilizer and explosives, and...

Supercar runs on water

Supercar runs on water - Mark NicholThis is the RMC Scorpion, the American supercar unveiled at SEMA 2008 this week. And though it might look like a run-of-the-mill motor show supercar, with its 20-inch chrome...

Computer failure hobbles Hubble, derails shuttle mission

It is the major setback of nasa mission ,now entire nasa machinary are looking to solve the problem as soon as possible.A crew of seven astronauts are preparing to repare the system.Hubble is swiched in...

Liquid restrictions to remain at UK airports

Following a jury's decision yesterday that the government's case against the men accused of planning to use liquids on planes as explosives could not be substantiated, the UK government says it will still continue to forbid passengers to take liquids on...

Nine Believed Dead in California Helicopter Crash

UPDATE: 9:14PM EST - August 7It is now declared 'with fair certainty' that the nine people missing are in fact, dead." Nine people had been declared missing and four survivors were hospitalized after a Sikorsky...

Launch of Private Rocket Fails; Three Satellites Were Onboard

"A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space Saturday night, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire’s effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery business. The failure occurred a little more than two minutes after...

Lander grabs Mars water, will see if it's life-supporting

"(CNN) -- The Phoenix lander got its robotic arm onto a sample of water ice from Mars' surface and popped the ice into tiny, onboard "ovens" that will help determine if the water could support life, NASA researchers said Thursday. ...

750 set to make trip to Taiwan from China

Direct flights between Taiwan and China is a great start to the new relationship between the two lands. Before when I made my trips from Taiwan to Shanghai it would take me a whole day to get there. We would leave...

Miami police pull over the world's first 'brothel-on-wheels'

"An alleged brothel-on-wheels that authorities said they busted over the weekend gives a whole new meaning to keeping the party moving.Miami Beach undercover detectives who paid a $40 entry fee and boarded a...

Obama Donates $4,600 to Clinton Campaign; Mrs. Obama Pledges Gay Equality

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Michelle Obama promises a gay Democrats group that her husband will fight for gay equality. Given that Mrs. Obama is busy making policy and public statements, Mr. Obama is going to be hard-pressed, in any logical way, to continue to claim that the media and...

In a plane crash safest seats are in aisle

There is really no location on an airplane that is significantly safer than another. Sadly, there is no magic seat on an aircraft. There is, of course, an element of luck. If you sit in the back and there's a fire...

Robocarp: Mecha Fish to Track Oil Spills

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a new type of robotic fish which moves through the water as a real fish does: with fins. Such locomotion makes the mechafish more...

U.S. Navy creates manga about nuclear carrier

U.S. Naval Forces Japan headquarters has produced a Japaneselanguage manga comic depicting the life of a U.S. serviceman ofJapanese origin working as a crew member on a nuclear-powered aircraftcarrier. The carrier USS George Washington will be deployed to the U.S. naval base...

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