Welcome home, Jules Verne

After its successful six month mission as part of the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has fallen to earth like a spectacular firework, as it made a controlled...

Actor Verne Troyer sues TMZ.com over sex tape

Verne Troyer is suing celebrity Web site TMZ.com and other defendants and seeking more that $20 million in damages over his sex tape that he claims was stolen and posted online."Troyer, who played the...

Al-Sadr calls for protest Million Man March

Sadr calls protest march against U.S."BASRA, Iraq, April 3 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called Thursday for a million-strong march in the shrine city of Najef against the U.S. "occupation" in Iraq. The...

The Times Starts its Top-50 Lists 11 Months Early

Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or...

Ducasse Takes Cuisine to Eiffel Tower

Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges. Though only 410 feet...

French Architect Goes Global

Like a character out of Jules Verne, Jean Nouvel, 62, says that he creates a small world in each building that he designs. "Every time I'm making architecture, it's in a world that doesn't exist for me. Each time it's an unfolding of interior spaces, details, locations, new...

Giant squid washes up in Tasmania

Everyone loves a good giant squid story. I like this quote: it's "not your usual flotsam or jetsam"."Once people thought they existed only in sailor's tall tales. Jules Verne's fictional Captain Nemo fought one,...

Today in history - Nov. 14

"Today is Tuesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2006. There are 47 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 14, 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days....

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