Asteroid smashing mission to blast space rock in 2022

February 25, 2013 16:27

A joint mission between Europe and the US is working on a project to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, in a bid to prove that incoming objects from space can be knocked off path and stopped from colliding with earth.

The Joint European/US Asteroid impact and Deflection Assessment mission…

America’s most contaminated: Radioactive waste leaks into northwestern river

February 23, 2013 00:31

Radioactive waste is leaking from six underground tanks at America’s most-contaminated facility in Washington, the state’s government announced on Friday. Just how much toxic stew got into the Columbia River’s underground basin is unclear.

The leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has so far not posed an immediate health risk to the…

Cholera immunity: UN denies compensation to Haiti disease victims

February 23, 2013 09:36

The United Nations has announced it rejects a damage claim for victims of a cholera epidemic in Haiti, believed to have been caused by UN forces. Since its outbreak in October 2010, the disease has claimed over 7,750 lives.

A relief mission, which helped restore Haiti from earthquake-caused…

Connecticut cops pay $3.5 million after killing unarmed man in SWAT raid

February 21, 2013 21:23

Three-and-a-half million dollars will be paid out to the family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a poorly-executed SWAT raid nearly five years ago.

As part of a settlement in a case involving the 2008 death of 33-year-old Gonzalo Guizan, five towns in Fairfield County will pool their…

‘Zombie cell’ mates biology and chemistry at nano-scale

February 22, 2013 07:07

US researchers developed a process that coats a living cell with silica ‘armor’, creating a near-identical inorganic duplicate. This ‘zombie cell’ technique has the potential for building complex nano-scale machines using life as blueprint.

The process developed at the University of New Mexico is…

NATO Defence Ministers agree to expand exercises and multinational cooperation

21 Feb. 2013

NATO Defence Ministers agreed concrete goals for more ambitious training and exercises to maintain the lessons of interoperability at their meeting in Brussels on 21 February.

“Over the last decade, in Afghanistan, Kosovo and other operations, our servicemen and -women have learned to work together…

FAA takes major step in expanding drone use in America

Published: 15 February, 2013, 22:09

US President Barack Obama has approved legislation that is expected to immediately accelerate the use of domestic surveillance drones within the United States.

On Thursday, Pres. Obama signed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, a…

CCTVandalism: 'Camover' game pokes Big Brother's eye in Germany

Published: 16 February, 2013, 16:45

Scores and bonuses for destroying CCTV cameras – that's what you get if you play a new 'reality-game' in Germany. The 'Camover' movement is spreading across the country, despite the fact that there's no real prize.

To participate in…

US tested new weapon, no meteor in Chelyabinsk – Russian LibDem leader

Published: 15 February, 2013, 18:23

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party, said that no meteor fell in the Urals on Friday – the US “tested a new weapon” over the region, he claimed.

“You’re like some primitive tribe. What…

Amazon used ‘neo-Nazi’ guards to control workers in German factory scandal

Published: 15 February, 2013, 18:23

Internet giant Amazon has been accused of abusing thousands of foreign workers in its German warehouses. An investigation claimed the company employed guards who may have neo-Nazi links, who intimidated and bullied temporary staff across…

Scram, serfs: Poor Londoners being booted from city

Published: 14 February, 2013, 19:31

Nearly 3,000 poor adults and children will have to leave their London homes to move up to 200 miles away. Camden council has dropped the bombshell that it will displace 761 of its families. Many criticized the move as de facto ‘social cleansing.’…

Russian meteorite crash: LIVE UPDATES

Published: 15 February, 2013, 11:42

Edited: 15 February, 2013, 15:01

The Russian Urals region has been stricken by a sudden cosmic attack. Unidentified flying objects exploded over several major cities, including Chelyabinsk, where the blast waves blew out windows and disrupted mobile…

Hundreds of UK drones 'missing' in Iraq and Afghanistan

Published: 13 February, 2013, 17:01

Edited: 13 February, 2013, 20:32

Britain has lost 447 of its military drones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The aircraft have crashed, broken down or gone missing during operations, adding to international outrage over civilian deaths and…

Military forces from Italy, Qatar in Libyan port ahead of revolution anniversary – RT sources

Published: 13 February, 2013, 18:22

Arms and troops from Italy and Qatar are arriving at Tripoli's Al Njela seaport to help the Libyan leadership, should violence erupt on the second anniversary of the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, according to RT…

LA residents to police: Don’t shoot, we’re not Dorner

Published: 12 February, 2013, 21:01

After three Californians were nearly killed this week by police officers opening fire at people mistaken for suspected murderer Chris Dorner, a solution may finally stop the shootings. And no, the cops haven’t caught the killer.

In the wake of three recent extreme cases of mistaken…

NYPD officer who sexually assaulted teacher beats rape conviction

Published: 12 February, 2013, 01:43

A New York police officer who brutally sodomized and inflicted oral sex upon a schoolteacher at gunpoint has not been convicted of rape, despite DNA evidence and witness testimonies about the violent attack.

New York’s state law excludes nonconsensual oral…

New software can track your every move and predict future behavior

Published: 11 February, 2013, 06:32

US defense giant Raytheon has developed a controversial software that uses social networking sites to track your movements, able to predict where a person will be and their future behavior. The program has drawn criticism from civil rights groups.…

$1 million reward offered for fugitive LA ex-cop

Published: 10 February, 2013, 18:25

Edited: 11 February, 2013, 02:06

Amid a massive manhunt for the fugitive LA ex-cop suspected of having killed three people, authorities announced a reward of $1 million for information leading to his arrest.…

Sudanese pyramid sprawl: 35 ancient pyramids discovered in Sedeinga

Published: 08 February, 2013, 12:57

Archaeologists have reportedly discovered 35 small ancient pyramids in Sudan at a site known as Sedeinga dating back around 2,000 years. Scientists are stunned over how densely the pyramids appeared to be heaped together.…

'Lift the Burden': Tens of thousands march against austerity in Ireland 

Published: 10 February, 2013, 04:57

Tens of thousands of people have marched through cities in Ireland in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures and high costs of living.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions,which organized the rallies,…