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Indian ship with 35 crew attacked by pirates, escapes

"Mumbai: A state-owned Indian ship with a 35-member crew on board was attacked by pirates with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the Arabian sea, barely 500 kms off the western coast but repulsed the...

Policeman's wife twice wrongly diagnosed with swine flu dies

" A senior policeman's wife died 'in terrible circumstances' from Legionnaires' disease after her symptoms were twice 'mistaken' for swine flu. Carol Rowe, 46 was told she had swine flu by an ambulance crew who...

Drugs boat blown up by Royal Navy

As part of the UK's war on drugs the Royal Navy frigate Iron Duke has blown up a drugs boat after first arresting the crew and seizing cocaine worth £33 million. This type of deployment of forces is in marked...

US fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan; 2 crew members dead

Bringing Normalcy in Afghanistan is costing heavily to US.In latest incident F-15E fighter jet crashed in eastern province, reports suggest that two crew member died. There is no report of militant involvment."A...

Ground the Airbus?

To date, there have been 23 fatal Airbus crashes, killing 2,584 people. EXCERPT: Used in law, science and philosophy, a rule known as Occam’s Razor requires that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex, and/or that explanations of unknown...

Dutch Navy raid pirate 'main' ship & release 20 captive

Reports are breaking within all the media ranks that the Dutch navy have attacked the 'main' ship used by the pirates who have been attacking commercial vessels. They captured 7 pirates but under Dutch law and...

Maersk Alabama Crew Returns Home

The crew of the hijacked cargo ship the Maersk Alabama arrived in Maryland from Kenya early this morning.  They had to fly home without their captain, who'd been held by pirates for five days last week....

Captain taken hostage by Somali pirates on the high-seas

The captain of a US cargo ship carrying food to African refugees has been taken hostage by Somali pirates and the crew are trying to plead with them for the return of their captain. Military help has arrived on...

Flight 1549 Black Box Recorders Confirm Bird Strike

The examination of Flight 1549 black box recorders has confirmed initial allegations made by the flight's crew that bird strike was the cause of the plane's double engine failure. Black boxes revealed that the...

Caramoan Island: 'Surviving in paradise'

A trip to the Caramoan Islands will get anyone as close to nature as possible with its pristine beaches, majestic caves and diverse marine wildlife. Hence, one must be fully prepared to experience an...

Somali pirates hijack ship, Indian crew aboard

The somali pirates are once again in action, they captured a chemical tanker.This time several Indian crew members and two British security guards are reported to be on board." Somali pirates hijacked a...

Somali pirates hijack Yemeni ship

Somalian Pirates have seized another cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, the 10th vessel to be captured in 17 days on Tuesday. The ship called Adina belongs to Yemen, The last contact...

Astronauts to turn urine into drinking water

In the spirit of National Recycling week, NASA will be sending up a water recycling device to the International Space Station that will recycle urine into drinking water. This coincides with the move to double the...

Endeavour docks with space station

" The international space station's three crew members Sunday welcomed aboard space shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts, who arrived to help install more living areas and upgrade amenities. The...

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 19 October 2008

"All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Day 6 of joint E17/18 operations."

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