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ISS dodges debris
The International Space Station has had to perform an evasive manoeuvre to avoid colliding with debris from a Russian satellite that broke-up earlier in the year. NASA reports:"Using ATV thrusters, the ISS... Search for clues in Madrid crash
"Accident investigators are to scour the wreckage of a plane that crashed at Madrid's Barajas airport, leaving 153 passengers dead. The cause of the air disaster, Spain's worst in 25 years, has not yet been identified but the black box flight recorder was retrieved from the... Georgia conflict: Screams of the injured rise from residential streets
Innocent people are the victim of all this. Many building and apartment damaged by Russian airstrike." The ground shook and a series of explosions rippled through the air. From the middle of a housing estate in... Man dies after storms hammer northern Indiana
Storms hit northern Indiana last night, and the Department of Public Works has been working since early this morning to remove debris so that the built-up water can run off more quickly.There are currently no road...Body found in rubble of Houston plant explosion
One person has been found amongst the rubble of the Goodyear Houston Chemical plant after an explosion this morning.Six people were also injured."Scott Baughman, a spokesman for Goodyear, said the employee's body was discovered shortly after 2 p.m. when crews were able to go... China declares quake lake crisis over
The potential for the 'quake lake' - a lake in China whose dam was threatened by the earthquake there - to flood has been removed, according to the Chinese government."Evacuees headed down from temporary camps Wednesday after Chinese authorities declared the flood threat over... China holds funeral for panda killed by earthquake
A funeral was held today for Mao Mao, the nine-year old panda that was killed in the earthquake in China last month. The funeral was held at the Wolong Nature Reserve."The world famous panda center was badly damaged... WWII bomb detonated in London
A neighbourhood near the future Olympic Park in east London was getting back to normal today after being evacuated for a few hours while British Army engineers denotated a large WWII bomb that was unearthed this... Station closed after debris falls on tracks
The bridge that suffered a partial collapse last night is causing travel chaos this morning, shutting down the main traffic hub Liverpool Street station. The bridge is to be part of the new 2012 East London rail... China worries about flood threat in quake zone
Chinese Army had been working hard in clearing the clogged rivers in quake affected Sichuan province. Earth quake sent millions of tons of earth and rock tumbling into some of the region's narrow valleys. Rising... Radiation leaks detected in Chinese earthquake zone
Radiation leaks in the Chinese earthquake zone. The news from China keeps getting more grim."Chinese environment authorities say they have found fifty hazardous sources of radiation since this month’s earthquake.Senior environment official, Wu Xiaoqing has said the... Quake Buried 50 Radiation Sources
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorRadiation, we have all seen it in disaster movies, where men and women in Moon suits and geiger counters are scanning the area looking for radiation contaminated... China contains radiation in quake area
The full scale of the impact of China's earthquake is only now becoming apparent, with the death toll rising to more than 55,000 - and 25,000 still missing. Meanwhile, geologists have concluded that the quake was... Severe weather kills 22 in Missouri, Oklahoma
UPDATE: 10:36 p.m. EST May 11AP reports 22 dead through three states."Stunned survivors picked through the little that
was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the
Plains and South, killing at... Space Junk: Orbital Litter
WIth over 6000 satellites sent into orbit since Sputnik, we have a lot of junk spinning around our fair planet. The article below has a superb slideshow to illustrate this."Today, it is estimated that only 800...
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